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Storm severely damages Khami Prison perimeter fence

A powerful storm that swept through Bulawayo on Monday afternoon left several buildings at the Khami Prison Complex's Medium Prison extensively damaged.The complex - located on the outskirts of the city and comprising Khami Maximum Prison,…

Published: 02 Dec 2025 at 16:11hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter

Prison boss, Air Force officer reported for crop destruction

Patrick Cheza, a businessman and beneficiary of State land, has reported two senior officials to the police for allegedly destroying his maize crop at S/D 43 Mahamara Farm in Mvuma. The officials, Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services…

Published: 02 Dec 2025 at 11:37hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter

Manhunt underway for Plumtree prison escapee

The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has launched an intensive manhunt for fugitive convict Mike Mathe, who escaped from Plumtree Prison under circumstances that remain under investigation. Authorities suspect the breakout…

Published: 24 Nov 2025 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Prisons officer death opens can of worms

The death of a Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officer has sparked controversy, with starkly conflicting accounts from the police and the deceased's family over what transpired during his final hours.In a statement, nation…

Published: 22 Nov 2025 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter

Prisons officer dies after mob assault

A Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer stationed at Chinhoyi Remand Prison has died after sustaining severe injuries during what police describe as a mob attempt to carry out a citizens' arrest. The incident has stirre…

Published: 22 Nov 2025 at 13:09hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa reads riot act

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared that drug and substance abuse will not be tolerated within Zimbabwe's uniformed forces, emphasizing the need for discipline and moral integrity across the security sector.The announcement was made …

Published: 17 Nov 2025 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter

Blessed Mhlanga letter from prison

Harare, Remand Prison, 7 April 2025Dear friends and fellow Zimbabweans As I write from this discomfort of my overcrowded cell, I am suffering from a serious bout of flue which has drained my strength and now threatens my inner peace. Sleep…

Published: 07 Apr 2025 at 19:16hrs | | by Blessed Mhlanga

Job Sikhala's New Year Message

CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONNEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM CHIKURUBI MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONDear Zimbabweans and my Worldwide friends.My dearest Zimbabweans and Worldwide friends, Happy New Year, Happy 2023!!!It is through the grace of our eve…

Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 20:19hrs | | by Job Wiwa Sikhala

'Stop praying for me and Zimbabwe,' says Sikhala

Dear Zimbabwean and Worldwide FriendsMy dearest friends, today marks exactly one and half years, that is, the full 18 months under persecution, incarceration in a meter by two and half meters solitary confinement in Chikurubi Maximum Secur…

Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 11:04hrs | 30 | by Job Sikhala

Resilience Behind Bars: A reflection on seven months in prison

It is seven months since magistrate Feresi Chakanyuka sentenced me to four years in prison for "calling for anti-corruption demonstrations". One year was suspended and am effectively serving three years. Yes in 2020 I called for peaceful a…

Published: 04 Nov 2023 at 12:47hrs | 1744 | by Jacob Ngarivhume

78 Covid-19 positive cases at Masvingo Prison

A total of 78 Covid-19 positive cases have been recorded amongst inmates at Mutimurefu Prison which is the biggest penitentiary in Masvingo province.The positiv

Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chamisa prison visit caused trouble for Ngarivhume and Chin'ono

#JULY31 protests organiser, Jacob Ngarivhume says MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's recent visit to Harare remand prison angered authorities who ordered he a

Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter

Barring of Mrs B Mtetwa from seeing Hopewell Chin'ono at Chikurubi Maximum Prison

Reference is made to the above subject matter and to your letter addressed to the Commissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service dated 25 August 2020. The Order that was made by Magistrate Nduna in paragraph I reads …

Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:02hrs | | by W Risiro

Facing prison but I am not moved - Dzamara

On Friday, 23 June, 2017, I will stand before Magistrate Sande at Rotten Row Magistrates Court as she will deliver ruling over one of the trumped up charges the state has preffered against me. It is the state's case that I, together with H…

Published: 21 Jun 2017 at 12:50hrs | | by Patson Dzamara

Corruption on recruitment

SirAs a concerned and disadvantaged citizen I would like to ask if the recruitment strategy recently conducted by Zimbabwe Prison And Correctional Service was good. Some months ago I saw a hoax whatsapp message circulating on social media …

Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 21:00hrs | | by Sir

Linda Masaira Prison Diary

Torture of injustice: 6 JULY 2016There should have been someone to vindicate me. Who would feel my pain, my anger, my distress? I was suffering for speaking out and severely assaulted by one Inspector Kufankomwe on the 6th of July 2016, th…

Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 06:25hrs | 670 | by Linda Masaira

39 Zimbabweans facing prison and deportation - WhatsApp update

Please hide my I D.A friend of mine & 39 other Zimbabweans are facing 3 weeks in prison before deportation after they went to Messina to renew their asylum papers.uuuuuuum kusina amai hakuendwi

Published: 26 Jan 2015 at 18:03hrs | | by WhatsApp update

Take toddlers out of prison and devolve the justice system

The shocking revelations by Zimbabwe's Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs that some 30 toddlers are incarcerated with their mothers in Zimbabwe's squalid prisons calls for urgent remedial intervention.Deputy Minister Gutu is reported to…

Published: 11 Feb 2012 at 13:07hrs | | by Thamsanqa Zhou Jr

Fathering children from prison

Should men be allowed to father children while in prison, asks single dad Marlon Abrahams.Often I think we, as a society, are too clever for our own good!According to the Human Rights Act in the UK, a convicted (and imprisoned) criminal wa…

Published: 03 Jun 2011 at 20:29hrs | | by Marlon Abrahams

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