30 female inmates ‘reconciled with their victims’ as prison pioneers scheme

Thirty inmates at Thyolo Female Prison have successfully reconciled with the very victims and communities they wronged, thanks to a groundbreaking restorative justice scheme, prison bosses have revealed. Steven Chimbiri, lead facilitator for restorative justice at the facility, said the innovative programme is helping offenders mend broken relationships before they even complete their sentences — […]

A convicted banker, a K47m theft, and an uneasy reckoning

Gift Nafere is ten years into a prison sentence for stealing K47m from NBS Bank, in a case that once dominated headlines. Last week, in a plain meeting room at the bank’s Limbe branch, he sat across from his former employers and said sorry. The encounter came about through the Malawi Prisons Service’s Restorative Justice […]