TUESDAY’S announcement that President Emmerson Mnangagwa will soon grant a general amnesty to various categories of prisoners is a familiar chapter in the country’s correctional narrative.Faced with a prison population of 23 000—well beyond the 17 000-person capacity—the move is, on the surface, a pragmatic response to a humanitarian crisis.Overcrowding at a rate of 135…
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