HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa granted clemency to more than 4,000 prisoners, including some who were on death row, in an independence day amnesty on Thursday. Zimbabwe ...

In a rare show of compassion, prison authorities recently allowed a 26-year-old Hwange inmate to leave his cell to bid a final farewell to his father.Emmanuel Chipembere, who is currently serving a ...

Mugabe announced the pardon through a government notice on Monday, without stating a reason for the move, and the release of prisoners started on Wednesday. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has ...

Human rights groups have condemned Zimbabwe's prisons as hell-holes that subject prisoners to slow starvation and possible death due to poor conditions. Responding to the shocking images that emerged ...

ZIMBABWE Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Assistant Commissioner Jabulile Mathema has officially assumed duty as ...

The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission has told IOL that scores of South African nationals are languishing in Zimbabwe’s Harare Remand Prison, awaiting deportation, after they were arrested for ...

The Agricultural Rural Development Authority yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services that will see the two institutions venturing into farming ...

Justice Ministry Permanent Secretary David Mangota recently said the country was losing millions of dollars in taxpayer money due to serious over-crowding in remand prisons Senate Human Rights ...

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HARARE, Zimbabwe — A Zimbabwe opposition figure who spent nearly two years in pretrial detention is set be freed after a magistrate sentenced him to a suspended prison sentence on Tuesday for inciting ...