"Money Can Buy You Anything In A Zimbabwean Prison" - Ex Con Claims

Corruption in Zimbabwe’s prison is on the increase, a Daily News report says. The publication interviewed a former convict who spent 14 months at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison who said:

Money can buy you anything if you are in prison. Rich people who go to jail almost get anything that they want and it is true that prison officials can arrange for an inmate to get unscheduled visits

Sometimes they stage-manage that a prisoner is ill and take him to the clinic where a family member is then sneaked in so that other inmates do not see this happening, but everyone knows that is what happens.

A few weeks ago 3 senior prison officers employed Chikurubi Maximum Prison stood before the Harare magistrate facing charges of corruption after they engaged in a chicken rearing project with prominent prisoner Munyradzi Kereke using prison labour.

More: The Daily News