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Arron Nyamayaro
A NUMBER of suspects facing serious charges are faking insanity as a way to get freedom, the country’s prisons boss has said.
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service Commissioner General, Moses Chihobvu, said this yesterday in an interview on the sidelines of a Zimbabwe-Namibia Correctional Service, Rehabilitation and Reintegration Workshop.
Comm-Gen Chihobvu said the workshop is meant to address case and risk management as well as collection of data.
“The Namibia Correctional Service team is here to exchange notes with our officers in addressing issues to do with the case, risk management and information technology,” said Comm-Gen Chihobvu.
“We have a number of suspects facing serious charges pretending to be of questionable sanity in a way to seek freedom.
“This workshop will leave our officers with knowledge and skills in a better rehabilitation and reintegration where each inmate’s issue will be dealt with.
“There was a sharp increase in the number of patients under the psychiatric section who have noted some leakages on the ZPCS system.
“Every inmate will undergo a vetting system under social officers and other experts to assess him or her.
“We will not have inmates classified as dangerous to remain caged in cells the whole day while other inmates regarded as less dangerous are being attended to.
“Our trained officers will be engaging every inmate and this will help in dealing with overcrowded prisons,” said Comm-Gen Chihobvu.
Namibia Correctional Service Deputy Commissioner General, Mariana Martin, said:
“We are here to share our experiences in offender management, data collection of offenders and how to manage released inmates, among other strategies.
“We do not have open prison in Namibia as such but we have a better way of managing offenders of all classes,” she said
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