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Overloaded jails: Angola set to free scores of inmates
The Angolan government is seeking to de-congest its overcrowded prisons by freeing thousands of inmates convicted with prison sentences of up to 12 years as authorities approved a new amnesty law.
But the new law, which was passed on Wednesday only grants amnesty to common crimes of prisoners who have completed half of the sentence and it also covers national and foreign citizens in Angola.
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“The amnesty for all offences punishable by imprisonment of up to 12 years…results from the feeling of providing social opportunities, policies and other rehabilitation staff and family,” said Virgilio de Fontes Pereira, president of Parliamentary Group of the ruling party, MPLA.
It would be recalled that recently, Zimbabwe’s Preisdent Robert Mugabe literarily emptied the country’s prison as he set free all female prisoners, except those on death row, or serving life sentence.
This is coming on the heels of difficulties by government to cater for the feeding of the prisoners, due to a cash crunch.
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