Africa-Press – Angola. The consumption of inappropriate water by inmates of the Kivanda penitentiary unit, in the commune of Mangue Grande, about 65 kilometers from the city of Soyo, in the province of Zaire, worries the Provincial Commission for the Coordination of Local Justice.
The concern is among the conclusions and recommendations of the I Meeting of the Provincial Commission for the Coordination of Justice in Zaire, held Thursday in Mbanza Kongo.
Participants at the meeting concluded that the situation of consumption of untreated water, associated with the lack of logistics to ensure the diet of inmates, has resulted in the emergence of various diseases within the penal population of that prison.
The deteriorating state of infrastructure at the Kivanda and Nkiende penitentiary unit (in Mbanza Kongo), as well as overcrowding, is another concern of the Justice Coordination, as it jeopardizes the physical integrity of inmates and prison officers.
In order to change the situation, the Commission asks the Provincial Health Office to guide the municipal departments to assign medical teams to the aforementioned prison units in order to carry out routine consultations and medicate inmates diagnosed with certain pathologies.
The lack of a center for the re-education of minors in conflict with the law in the province of Zaire, which has resulted in the ineffectiveness of criminal prevention measures applied to children, is another concern of the aforementioned Commission, for which it requests the Provincial Government to build an Observation and Internment Center and create a supervisory commission to monitor them.
The phenomenon of fuel smuggling was also discussed at the 1st Ordinary Meeting of the aforementioned Commission, and it was recommended that workers at gas stations be held criminally responsible for facilitating this illegal activity.
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