Harare - President Emmerson Mnangagwa has activated section 112(1)(a), (c) and (d) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe by granting amnesty to p...
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Harare - President Emmerson Mnangagwa has activated section 112(1)(a), (c) and (d) of the Constitution of Zimbabwe by granting amnesty to prisoners in a bid to decongest overcrowded prisons in the country.
About 3 000 people will benefit, the prison service’s assistant commissioner, Alford Mashango Dube, told reporters in the capital, Harare. He put the current prison population at 'plus or minus' 20 000 in 46 facilities, against a holding capacity of 17 000.
The amnesty will benefit prisoners including women who’re not serving life sentences and juveniles, potentially easing overcrowding in the southern African nation’s jails.
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| Prion Population has Soared in Zimbabwe |
Prisoners sentenced to 36 months or less will also be given amnesty, as will the terminally ill, the prisons service said Wednesday in an emailed statement. Those sentenced to life before March 1998 will be granted remission, and those who’ve been on death row for 10 years or more will have their sentences commuted to life, it said.
“Category A – remission of sentence for all convicted female prisoners where a full remission of the remaining period of imprisonment is hereby granted to all female prisoners, regardless of the offence committed, save for those sentenced to life imprisonment.
“Category B – remission of sentence of all juveniles – where full remission of the remaining period of imprisonment is hereby granted to all juvenile prisoners under the age of eighteen years serving terms of imprisonment irrespective of the offences they committed,” said Dube. - Online Sources
“Category B – remission of sentence of all juveniles – where full remission of the remaining period of imprisonment is hereby granted to all juvenile prisoners under the age of eighteen years serving terms of imprisonment irrespective of the offences they committed,” said Dube. - Online Sources
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