prisons

Rwanda Correctional Services (RCS) says it has made tangible steps to transform the institution, but admitted it still grapples with high numbers of prisoners per one prison guard. Currently, the…

In Rwandan traditional society, an adage goes that ‘Tears of a man flows from within” to mean that, you would never see a man shading tears. Well, that adage came…

Rwanda is set to revise its national security policy, with possibilities that citizens committing crimes will serve time in community service as a sentence. Normally it takes five years to…

September 14, 2018 was a day like any other under the sun, but a communiqué that reached out to the public towards midnight changed the narrative. A communiqué was released…

  None of the 2,140 inmates set free last week by government had any political cases but rather committed serious crimes ranging from abortion to theft, a review of their…

Hundreds of families are celebrating following the release of a big number of inmates. On Friday, January 19th, the president informed the Cabinet Meeting that he granted mercy to 18…

Dr. Leon Mugesera, serving life for genocide, is not a happy man as he serves jail in one of the best prison facilities in this region. He has access to…

A number of Rwandan inmates could serve the rest of their sentence in a foreign land if an agreement between Rwanda and Malawi is concluded as expected. Rwanda is holding…

President Paul Kagame has pardoned child inmates who sat and passed Primary Leaving Examination (PLE) and Secondary school national exams 2016 while behind bars. The president announced this amnesty to the…