First Capital Bank Group chairperson Hitesh Anadkat on Tuesday handed over a 384-bed prison block to Chichiri Prison in Blantyre worth K350 million with a call to encourage community sentence programmes and drastically reduce the use of custody on minor offences. Anadkat constructed the modern prison block after learning through the media the poor, degrading […]
Prison authorities continue to highly congest prisons in the country flatly defying a Constitutional Court order to decongest them. The Constitutional Court recently ordered prison authorities to decongest prisons by releasing some inmates with petty crimes. Centre for Human Rights, Education and Advice (CHREAA) executive director Victor Mhango said the situation in prisons remains worse […]
Stakeholders who pushed government to implement an increase in the Malawi Prison Service (MPS) budget to cater for female prisoners’ menstrual hygiene materials. The Centre for Human Rights Education Advice and Assistance (CHREAA), with funding from Amplify Change, has been advocating for the inclusion of menstrual hygiene packages in the Malawi prison health budget for […]
Inmates at Rumphi prison who are on antiretroviral therapy (ART) have asked for a balanced diet from authorities and well-wishers to improve their nutritional status and better adherence to the treatment. The call was made Wednesday when Hope for Relief Organization conducted adherence assessment among inmates on ART with the aim to explore the challenges […]
Warders at Chitipa Prison use inmates’ cells as offices as the prison is failing to finish up its office block nine years since the construction of the block commenced. The development has created congestion of inmates at the prison, which is currently accommodating prisoners from Karonga and Chitipa districts. Speaking Wednesday when Chitipa court users […]
A number of activities have been organised by Malawian capital punishment campaigners, Reprieve in observing the 17th World Day Against the Death Penalty scheduled for Zomba Prison where children and families of former death-row inmates, as well as former death-row inmates themselves will share their stories. Celebrated under the theme, ‘Children, Unseen Victims’, the World […]
Malawi President Peter Mutharika has pardoned 88 prisoners who should be released from the country’s heavily congested prisons as part of the Republic celebrations. Ministry of Homeland Security principal secretary Samuel Madula says the prisoners were supposed to be pardoned in July but there was a delay. “The delay in releasing them is because a […]
The Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) has implored members of Women Caucus and Social Welfare committee of Malawi Parliament to push for MK24.9 million funding to the Department of Prisons to enable 300 female in mates access menstrual hygiene necessities. CHREAA met the Members of Parliament (MPs) on Tuesday in the […]
Youths in Chitipa donated assorted items including soap, food stuffs, reading materials such as newspapers and books at Chitipa Prison. This was part of commemoration of the International Youth Day on Monday where they cheered the inmates at the prison. Chitipa District Youth Officer, Jessie Mwansambo said it was appropriate for the youth to celebrate […]
As a way of making sure that ex-prisoners are accepted in the society, prison fellowship Malawi has embarked on sensitization meetings in areas within Balaka district. Speaking Tuesday during one of the sensitization meetings which was held in the area of Traditional Authority Chanthunya, Executive Director of Prison Fellowship Malawi Half Way house, Rodrick Zalimba […]
Wives to Nkhata Bay Prison staff members have donated assorted items to Nkhata Bay District Hospital children’s and female wards, worth about K100 000. Prison’s station officer’s wife, Gertrude Kumimba, who is also a sergeant at the prison, said the donation was made to share the joy of the festive season with patients at the […]
First Lady Madam Prof. Gertrude Mutharika has urged Prison Warders to treat the inmates with utmost care considering that they were the only family available for the inmates in the course of serving their sentence serving. She said this Friday when she gave an early Christmas treat to inmates at Blantyre Prison where she donated […]
Globe Hope Mobilization (GLOHOMO), an organisation that promotes access to equitable health services has commended i nmates at Kasungu Prison for willingly going for HIV and tuberculosis (TB) testing, a thing stakeholders say has helped reduce new infections at the reformation centre. Glohomo said the inmates responded positively to efforts aimed at reducing cases of […]
Ntcheu prison has been hit by water problems, as the correctional institutional has no running water for a month now. This has prompted some health officials to raise an alarm that the prison risks skin and waterborne diseases. Prison spokesperson Jordan Mang’anda asked for more time to find out why there has been no water […]
Centre for Human Rights Education and Advice (Chrea) says it is going to court to force the government give prisoners three meals a day following a Supreme Court ruling of 2009. Chrea executive director Victor Mhango said a three judge panel in 2009 ruled that the Prisons Department should start giving inmates three meals a […]
President Peter Mutharika has pardoned 160 prisoners from the country’s 23 crowded prisons. Minister of Information and Communications Technology, Henry Mussa said the President pardoned the prisoners in exercising his powers rendering to the Constitution of Malawi. He said Article VIII, Section 89, of the Malawi Constitution states that, the President in consultation with an […]
Centre for Human Rights Education and Assistance-CHREAA has urged political parties to make simple and clear manifestos for in-mates country’s prisons enable them make informed decision of ahead the 2019 Tripartite Elections. CHREAA was accredited by Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) to conduct voter and civic education during the 2009 general tripartite elections in 28 prisons […]
Malawi’s leading commercial bank FDH has donated four computers and two printers worth K4.3million to Chichiri Prison to facilitate exams at the prison. FDH Bank Head of Marketing Levie Nkunika said they decided to make the donation because it was found that some prisoners have been conducting studies but have had challenges during exams because […]