{"id":8502,"date":"2020-03-09T08:50:09","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=8502"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:54","slug":"zimbabwe-to-release-5000-prisoners-amid-food-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/03\/09\/zimbabwe-to-release-5000-prisoners-amid-food-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe To Release 5,000 Prisoners Amid Food Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By the East African<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zimbabwe\nwill release at least 5,000 prisoners to curb food shortages at correctional\nfacilities as the southern Africa country struggles with a collapsing economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The move\nis meant to decongest prisons that have 22,000 inmates against a carrying\ncapacity of 17,000, Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCabinet\nconsidered and approved a proposal to have a general amnesty for prisoners,\u201d Ms\nMutsvangwa told journalists in Harare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe\ngeneral amnesty, which will be for certain specified categories of prisoners,\nwill certainly decongest the country\u2019s prisons and alleviate challenges being\nexperienced by the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years\nago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa pardoned 3,000 prisoners to ease\novercrowding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pardon\nbenefited female prisoners except those sentenced to death or facing life\nsentences. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/africa\/Zimbabwe-will-release-prisoners-to-ease-food-shortage\/4552902-5479192-gasyywz\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the East African Zimbabwe will release at least 5,000 prisoners to curb food shortages at correctional facilities as the southern Africa country struggles with a collapsing economy. The move&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}