HOME Affairs and Internal Security Minister Jack Mwiimbu says the current population of inmates in Zambian prisons and correctional centres is 26,150 against the holding capacity of 10,650. And Mwiimbu says the only habitable correctional facility in Zambia is the Mwembeshi Correctional Facility. Meanwhile, German Ambassador to Zambia Dr Anne Wagner Mitchell says the revelations regarding the situation which inmates are in is shocking and needs to be addressed. Speaking during the launch of the Prisons and Correctional Centres audit report, Thursday, Mwiimbu asked various stakeholders to help the Zambian government rehabilitate correctional facilities, saying the current state of the facilities impeded the provision of humane custodial services. “The report shows the second prison audit conducted in collaboration with the...