This number exceeds the recommended capacity of 17 000, sparking concerns about the country’s ability to cope with the ever-increasing number of inmates.
Editorial Comment

Consider prisons privatisation

ZIMBABWE, like the rest of the world, will commemorate the International Prisoners’ Justice Day on August 10, amid concerns on the welfare of inmates. The Prisoners’ Justice Day movement started in Canada in 1974 in “support of prisoners’ rights and to remember all the people who have died of unnatural deaths while incarcerated”. Since then…

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