6.6. Zimbabwe periodically grants Presidential Amnesty for convicted
inmates in order to ease congestion in prisons. Table 3 below
depicts the number of inmates that have benefitted from the
Presidential amnesty in recent years.
Table 4 Number of inmates released on presidential amnesty
YEAR
RELEASED INMATES
2005
420
2006
0
2007
2979
2008
1884
2009
2182
2013
0
2014
3345
2015
0
2016
4091
2017
0
2018
5111
6.7. Government established an open prison at Connemara for males to
promote the right to liberty within the prison environment.
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