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Africa
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.
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Africa
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.
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Africa
Alternatives
PRISON Fellowship International (PFI) has commended the Zimbabwean Government for adopting the community service system as an alternative to jail sentences for minor offenders.
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Africa
Health
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Africa
Health
Material conditions
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.
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Africa
Rehabilitation
Zimbabwe: prison services change lives of former inmates
Prison is not just a place of punishment but also a place to rehabilitate and prepare
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Africa
Women
Facilities
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…
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Africa
Today President Nelson Chamisa visited MDC members who are incarcerated for political reasons.
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Africa
Coronavirus
Health
Zimbabwe: prison inmates urged to embrace Covid-19 vaccine
PRISON inmates have been encouraged to embrace the Covid-19 vaccine whose rollout
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Africa
Material conditions
Overcrowding
Zimbabwe: “fit for pigs”, conditions in overcrowded prisons choke inmates
Former inmates of Zimbabwe’s overburdened prisons say the conditions
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Africa
Access to legal rights
Discipline
Material conditions
Zimbabwe: uphold human rights, Mnangagwa tells prison officers
Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged prison officers to be disciplined and uphold human rights
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Africa
Justice
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Africa
Justice
Death penalty
Zimbabwe: abolition of the death penalty, Amnesty International hails “historic moment”
Zimbabwe has officially abolished the death penalty following
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Africa
Women
Facilities
Rehabilitation
Zimbabwe: can first ‘Open Prison’ for women open doors to a new life?
The Zimbabwean government in 2021 opened Marondera, its first open prison
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Africa
Justice
Zimbabwe: the country frees prisoners, including those sentenced to death, in independence day
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency
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Africa
Social ties
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.
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Justice
Italy decriminalized a long list of minor crimes on Friday, from obscene acts to blunders by cannabis researchers, to ease pressure on an overburdened justice system that ranks among the least efficient in the world.
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Oceania
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) last week handed over its decade-long prison support programme aimed at improving prison management, infrastructure rehabilitation, food supply chain management and treatment of detained mental health patients, to the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correcti…
Death penalty: global trends
Analysis Report
Africa
Analysis
North America
Report
Asia
Death penalty
Violence
Reduction of 30% in the number of executions, decrease in the number of countries having recourse to the executions: human rights organisation Amnesty international publishes its 2018 report on recourse to the death penalty.
Africa
Crises
Asia
Europe
Interview
Access to legal rights
Justice
Mary Lawlor is the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders since 2020. She tells us how her work, despite its limits, can help them, and reflects on the criminalisation they face around the world.