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| Food for Babies |
Zimbabwe's Prison
and Correctional Services (ZPCS) is reportedly failing to feed
appropriate food to babies of jailed mothers as it is "receiving
inadequate budgetary from treasury allocations".
According to New
Zimbabwe.com, deputy officer commanding the Harare metropolitan
province, Elizabeth Banda, said that the babies were being fed what
their jailed mothers were eating.
"We have not been
able to follow the statutory instrument which provides for the kind of
food for children. They have been eating what their mothers are eating.
We are operating at zero budget from the treasury," Banda was quoted as
saying.
The ZPCS accommodated around 100 babies born at different prison facilities across the country. Banda said that the
prison facilities in the capital Harare also lacked other basic
necessities such as ambulances, blankets and transport to ferry
prisoners to appear at their various court cases.
According to
reports, Zimbabwe, which has been been ruled by long-time leader Robert
Mugabe since 1980, last year had a prison population of about 20 000.
However, about six months ago the southern African country pardoned 2 000 prisoners to make space in its overcrowded jails.
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