PRISON Inmates relatives asked to bring 1kg kapenta fish, 3 cans tinned beef or tinned fish, 2kg sugar,2 loaves of bread, 1kg powdered milk,

PRISON Inmates relatives asked to bring 1kg kapenta fish, 3 cans tinned beef or tinned fish, 2kg sugar,2 loaves of bread, 1kg powdered milk,

  The Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has extended its begging bowl to donor agencies and relatives of convicts as thousands of inmates face serious food shortages, it has emerged. Zimbabwe’s cash-strapped government is struggling to raise funds to feed prisoners. Although President Robert Mugabe this year freed over 2 000 prisoners on an amnesty, information gathered by The Standard shows that correctional officials are struggling to cater for the basic needs of inmates….

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