Education department was not doing justice to this cause by not channeling
committed prison officials who are teachers to teach the inmates. In fact
prisoners
were
teaching
themselves.
Treatment of prisoners
Compared to colonial regime days
rehabilitation exercise. After all
prison management involving Illprisoners complained that the forced
treatment of prisoners was gradually
labor was strenuous. Some of the
going away owing to training of
inmates were found doing work for
prison
officials.
These
were
prison officers even though this does
orientated to realize and respect
not tally with prison rules. Many
prisoners’ rights in the country’s
times, the inmates polished shoes
penal institutions. However at times
for the prison officers while kneeling
work on the prisons farms by the
down which further degraded the
inmates was compulsory rather than
offender and dignity gradually lost
while
incarcerated
taken
for
a
.
In this picture
prisoners at
Chinhoyi prison
are exposed to
bee keeping skills,
a project sponsored by
ZACRO during 2008.
Such projects
empowered
inmates with skills for
survival while
rehabilitated and
easily reintegrate into
the main stream
society
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