Publicity and broadcasting services minister Monica Mutsvangwa as saying the sentence reduction would apply to defined categories of offences, rather than affecting all prisoners.
Pretoria – Zimbabwe is set to release thousands of inmates serving sentences for a range of non-violent crimes under a general reduction of jail terms granted by President Emerson Mnangagwa, state media reported.
“Cabinet noted that the country’s prison population currently stands at 22 000 against an official holding capacity of 17 000. The general amnesty, which will be for certain specified categories of prisoners, will certainly decongest the country’s prisons and alleviate challenges being experienced by the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services,” Mutsvangwa said.
In 2018, Mnangagwa granted another amnesty – cutting the sentences of 3 000 prisoners in Zimbabwe in a bid to decongest prisons.
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