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Rehabilitation programme impresses Zambia prisons chief

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Rehabilitation programme  impresses Zambia prisons chief

Zambia Correctional Service commissioner general Fredrick Chilukutu has expressed his admiration for the Windhoek Correctional Facility’s setup, praising both the friendly interactions between inmates and the correctional officers, as well as the rehabilitation programme.

On Monday, Chilukutu and his delegation visited Namibia’s largest correctional facility as part of his week-long official programme in the country.

His Namibian counterpart, commissioner General Raphael Hamunyela of the Namibian Correctional Service, showed him various technical and vocational activities taking place at the facility.

“When we toured the workshops, we especially saw that there is a lot of training going on and I am satisfied. Inmates that are coming out of the Namibian correctional system are indeed getting what they are supposed to get and we are assured or guaranteed that we are not going to have repeat offenders when they go out in society because they have something to do,” Chilukutu told Nampa in an interview.

The Zambian Correctional Service chief was also impressed by the friendly interactions between inmates and correctional officers.

“The relationship that is there between the inmates and the staff is cordial, and I think we need that. As Zambian correctional officials, we want to say it was a good impression that we learned. We also took interest in seeing how the inmates are accommodated; there is decency. I think humanity is expressed. We take it that way – that’s the way it should be in the way we look after our fellow human beings,” he said.

The Namibian Correctional Service and the Zambia Correctional Service are meeting in Windhoek to establish a joint technical team. 

The aim of the team is to determine which inmates from the two nations want to serve their sentences in their respective countries. -Nampa