A convict stabbed an officer and stole his uniform in an audacious prison break attempt at Harare Magistrates Court. Discover ...

Proceedings at the Harare Magistrates Court were brought to a standstill on Tuesday after an inmate stabbed a Zimbabwe ...

THE country’s correctional facilities are currently overcrowded amid revelations the population has topped 27, 683 inmates ...

Analysts say the PG’s intervention signals an urgent call for judicial accountability and reform to prevent the prisons from becoming a breeding ground for disease and despair.

Children may be exposed to violence, illness and psychological stress, experiences that can have lasting developmental ...

Zimbabwe's prisons are holding almost 10 000 inmates beyond their official capacity, prompting Prosecutor General Loice Matanda-Moyo to issue a directive ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) – An AIDS awareness campaigner and his lawyers said Friday they are taking a groundbreaking test case to Zimbabwe’s highest court to force police and prison authorities ensure ...

The Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare is crumbling at the seams, assailed by overcrowding and a critical shortage of medicines, food and other basics as the economically-crippled country ...

The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission has told IOL that scores of South African nationals are languishing in Zimbabwe’s Harare Remand Prison, awaiting deportation, after they were arrested for ...