Prison Farming

Zambia Prisons Service is setting up a milling plant in Kabwe to fully add value to maize and other crops produced by inmates throughout the country every year. The service has already started constructing the plant which will have the capacity of producing 560 tonnes of mealie meal per week. It is a good development, but it would even be better if such initiatives are linked into broader rehabilitation programmes for prisoners, empowering them once they come out of prison. If this is only about ensuring the prison service has money, then it clearly it is too narrow an ambition.