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November 9, 2023

Zimbabwe: uphold human rights, Mnangagwa tells prison officers

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Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged prison officers to be disciplined and uphold human rights principles when handling inmates in the course of their duties.

September 27, 2023

Zimbabwe: can first ‘Open Prison’ for women open doors to a new life?

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Africa Women Facilities Rehabilitation Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwean government in 2021 opened Marondera, its first open prison for women, giving a chance for qualified prisoners to spend time with their families while serving their sentences.

August 22, 2023

Zimbabwe: "fit for pigs", conditions in overcrowded prisons choke inmates

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Former inmates of Zimbabwe’s overburdened prisons say the conditions are inhumane. Activists say government neglect and economic woes are to blame.

February 24, 2021

Zimbabwe: prison inmates urged to embrace Covid-19 vaccine

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PRISON inmates have been encouraged to embrace the Covid-19 vaccine whose rollout programme that has been approved by the government. Zimbabwe this week received 200 000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China whose roll out begins today. The Vaccination programme has an overall target o…

January 2, 2020

Zimbabwe: praised for prison term reforms

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PRISON Fellowship International (PFI) has commended the Zimbabwean Government for adopting the community service system as an alternative to jail sentences for minor offenders.

December 27, 2019

Zimbabwe : water, power woes dog prison

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INMATES and officers at Marondera Prison are sitting on a ticking health time bomb, as they have gone for close to two weeks drinking water from unprotected sources after a pump broke down.

August 12, 2019

Zimbabwe: 19 – 25 August 2019 set aside as Prison family Week 2019

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Zimbabwe every year sets aside the Prison family Week and this year it has been set for 19 – 25 August. During this time visitors can go visit their incarcerated relatives and get to interact with them freely as family and friends. The Prison will be open from 8AM to 4PM.

July 5, 2019

Zimbabwe: MDC statement on Chamisa’s visit to Chikurubi maximum prison

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Africa Zimbabwe

Today President Nelson Chamisa visited MDC members who are incarcerated for political reasons.

June 18, 2019

Zimbabwe: prisons under siege as Zimbabwe’s economic woes persist

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The Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare is crumbling at the seams, assailed by overcrowding and a critical shortage of medicines, food and other basics as the economically-crippled country battles to care for its inmates.

April 15, 2019

Zimbabwe: call to commit all women inmates to open prison

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Africa Women Facilities Zimbabwe

THE Zimbabwe Prison Correctional Services (ZPCS) has called on government to commit all women inmates to the open prison system. ZPCS’s assistant commissioner, Christmas Tarwira said this development will greatly assist mothers incarcerated and living with their minors. “We want the government to b…

March 22, 2018

Zimbabwe: otorga amnistía a tres mil reos para desahogar prisiones

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September 24, 2017

Zimbabwe prisoners deprived of ARVs

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Pre-trial detainees claim an acute shortage of anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) has hit the country’s prisons and correctional facilities, and is now threatening their survival.

January 17, 2017

Zimbabwe: typhoid outbreak spreads to Harare prisons

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