Malaysian prisons angered by movie

Malaysian prisons angered by movie

KUALA LUMPUR (AP): Malaysia's Prisons Department has lodged a
police report against an American movie charging it depicts the
Southeast Asian nation's prisons in a false light, a news report
said.

Polygram Films, "Return to Paradise" tells the fictional story
of an American man imprisoned on drug charges in Malaysia after a
reckless vacation with two friends in the northern state of
Penang.

Some scenes in the film, recently released in the United
States, falsely depict wardens torturing prisoners who are locked
in cells infested with rats and cockroaches and refused medical
treatment, said Omar Mohamad Dan, director-general of Malaysia's
prisons department.

Omar said the movie's producers were using the film to
criticize Malaysia's prison and justice system, particularly its
law that imposes the death penalty on drug traffickers.