Connemara Prison "Recruiting" Prisoners After Mnangagwa Releases All Inmates Through Amnesty

Officials at Connemara Open Prison in the Midlands province have said that prison officers have been reduced to carrying out duties like tending to cattle and prison fields. These duties are normally carried out by inmates, but all 65 inmates were released after the President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s amnesty earlier this year.

Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) spokesperson, Elizabeth Karinda-Banda said,

The open prison selection board is in the process of sitting to select prisoners who meet the required criteria. To date, the board has sat and 14 inmates were selected from WhaWha Prison and there are now at Connemara. The process is continuing and more suitable inmates will be recruited from all the country’s prisons…It is a temporary setback, which we are addressing and very soon everything will be normal.

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