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Prisoner population increase breaks downward trend

Prisoners: FILE PIC
Prisoners: FILE PIC

Even though the prisoner population in the country has been gradually dropping over the last five years, government has revealed an increase in last year's count, breaking the downward trend.

Responding to a question in Parliament recently, Minister of Defence and Security Kagiso Mmusi said in the previous year, the number of citizen prisoners increased slightly whilst the number of foreign prisoners increased marginally.

Mmusi was responding to a question from Gaborone Central legislator, Tumisang Healy, who had asked the minister to state the number of prisoners in Botswana, split between citizens and foreigners, and the trend in the population over the five years.

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