Opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) vice president for the centre Uladi Mussa has been transferred from Maula prison to Mzimba prison where he is to serve his five-year sentence. Prison officials have confirmed that Mussa has been transferred from Lilongwe to the Mzimba prison in the north because his relatives from Chipoka in Salima were […]
Kasungu municipality council on Saturday donated Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Kasungu prison as a way of fighting the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The donation was part of a K5 million PPEs distribution exercise that is targeting the district’s most congested areas. The official handing over that was done in a brief ceremony graced […]
President Lazarus Chakwera has pardoned 499 prisoners to decongest prisons amid rising cases of Covid-19 infections in the reformatory institutions. Minister of Homeland Security Richard Chimwendo Banda has confirmed the development. He said the pardon would reduce the spiking cases of virus infections. Covid-19 cases are surging in prisons, rising from 134 to 155 within […]
Nkhata Bay Prison on Wednesday arrested two coronavirus (Covid-19) positive inmates who had escaped from the facility’s isolation unit. In an interview, Nkhata Bay Prison spokesperson Mac Donald Migolo said the two were arrested within 100 yards from the facility. He said one of the escapees was transferred from Karonga Prison while the other one […]
Some prisoners are exerting pressure on the government to release some offenders following the death of one of the inmates at Maula prison in Lilongwe due to coronavirus (Covid-19). This is the first Covid-19 death at the prisons department. He was an in-mate who was transferred from Nkhotakota Prison to their national isolation centre at […]
Minister of homeland security, Richard Chimwendo Banda , acknowledged that the situation in the the country’s prisons over Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic is deteriorating because of overcrowding. Chimwendo Banda said this as Covid-19 cases has increased among both staff and inmates. He said a special presidential committee to look into the matter has recommended pardoning of inmates […]
Government says it has set aside money for risk allowances for prison warders in view of the raging Covid-19 pandemic. Homeland Security minister Richard Chimwendo Banda broke the news on Tuesday when he visited Zomba prison. “Let me assure you that the government will release the risk allowances for prison officers across the country very […]
Minister of Homeland Security Chimwendo Banda has said there’s a sudden coronavirus spike in Malawi prisons that is increasing by the day, saying President Lazarus Chakwera has pardoned the first inmate to test positive and has ordered further review. Chimwendo Banda said Covid-19 the spread of Covid-19 in jails is endangering not only prisoners and workers but the […]
About 13 prisoners have tested positive to Coronavirus (Covid-19) at Nkhata Bay Prison. According to spokesperson for Nkhata Bay District Hospital, Christopher Singini, 10 inmates and 3 prison warders have tested positive to Covid-19. “Yes out of the 14 new cases registered today in Nkhata Bay, 13 are from Nkhata Bay Prison,” said Singini. Prison […]
A prisoner at Chichiri Prison in Blantyre has tested positive for coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic in what is the first confirmed case of an inmate contracting the disease in Malawi jails. Malawi Prisons spokesperson Chimwemwe Shaba has confirmed. “It is true that we have registered a Covid-19 case at the Chichiri Prison,” said Shaba. Shaba said […]
The Church and Society of the Livingstonia CCAP Synod has called for a swift dialogue between the police and the prisons department over their recent fall out. Church and Society’s executive director Moses Mkandawire said his organization is ready to initiate the dialogue. There were running battles between the police and junior prison warders last week after […]
Through the initiative funded by the European Union (EU) to fast-track the review of some prisoners’ cases and decongest the country’s overpopulated prisons, about 1 392 inmates have walked to freedom. Prior to the release of the 1 392 prisoners under the Chilungamo (Justice and Accountability) Programme, Malawi Prisons were home to 14 000 inmates […]
The Malawi government through the Malawi Prison Service [MPS] has announced that it has promoted all prison warders in the country with immediate effect. Malawi Prisons Spokesperson Superintendent Chimwemwe Mike Shaba has confirmed the promotions. “Government has with immediate effect promoted all prison wardens to the rank of Sergeant, all sergeants to the rank of […]
There ha sbeen running battles at prisons facilities in Blantyre, Zomba and Mzuzu where the Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldiers and Malawi police are fighting with the striking prison officers have blocked the roads leading to the prison. However, at Maula Prison in Lilongwe the situation has been calm. The junior prison officers who have […]
Malawi Prison staff across the country has began strike action on Thursday to force government to give them an allocation from the K157 billion Covid-19 fund. The Malawi Defence Force, Malawi Police Service and Immigration Department have been given funds from the National Response to Coronavirus but the prison department has been left out. Prison warders at Chichiri […]
Malawi special Cabinet committee on coronavirus has outlined strict new measures to tackle the pandemic from spreading in the country, including decongesting the country’s prisons by pardoning the sick, old and lactating mothers from the country’s prisons. This was disclosed by five cabinet ministers led by Minister of Health and Population Jappie Mhango at a […]
In response to calls for all stakeholders to assist in precautionary measures against the spread of Coronavirus, Malawi’s National Muslim Prison Board has donated sanitary products to all prisons nationwide, including regional management offices as well as the Head Office in Zomba. The nationwide ‘Protect Through Sanition Project’ initiative towards mitigating the impact of the dreaded […]
With the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic having been declared a global emergency, there is an urgent need to address the high levels of congestion in Malawi prisons, civil society organisations (CSOs) have said. The CSOs that have issued the statement are Centre for Human Rights Advice Assistance and Education (CHREAA), Youth Watch Society, Paralegal Resource Centre, […]