Prisons Commissioners discuss Prison reform

Responding to questions at a conference organised by his department in Gaborone on homosexuality in prisons, Motlalekgosi said that "if homosexuality can happen in a normal society, who says it could not happen in places like prisons and other men and women only institutions?" he wondered.

There has been a concern, especially from organisations like BONELA, that the Botswana prisons system is inundated with cases of homosexual rape that go unreported. BONELA has lately called for the supply of condoms to prisons but the government has refused. Despite ex-convicts' evidence that there is sexual interaction among men, something which puts prisoners at the risk of HIV/AIDS infection, government is adamant that it will not supply condoms.