ONE hundred twenty-two years later, the prison system still isn’t built for long-term incarceration with dignity and rehabilitation. However, in 1947, the then Northern Rhodesia Attorney General H.G Morgan wrote that “Many Africans have no fear of entry into a prison, where they know they get good food, reasonable comfort and a comparative easy time”. This can be qualified by then North Western Rhodesia Magistrate Henry Rangeley who on October 13, 1948 wrote to the territory Administrator that, “Suggesting that an Order-in-Council be enacted applying the Colonial Prisoners Removal Act, 1884 to the Territory,” as there is no prison in which a prisoner could properly undergo a sentence of long duration”. In a tale of “A HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN...