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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Magistrates are being assigned full time to jails across Mozambique in a bid to boost the pace at which cases are processed and reduce overcrowding, Minister for Justice, Constitutional and Religious Affairs Helena Kida has announced.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is easier to have magistrates assigned to the place where they have direct contact with the cases: this way they focus on the issue of overcrowding,\u201d today\u2019s issue of \u2018O Pa\u00eds\u2019 quotes her as saying.<\/p>\n

The placement of magistrates to work full-time in prisons is part of a pilot project implemented by the Ministry of Justice and initially covering just Maputo province and city.<\/p>\n

The strategy, currently implemented in Maputo Provincial Penitentiary in Machava and the Preventive Penitentiary in Maputo city, is already having an effect, if not yet at the desired levels, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to replicate [the project in other penitentiaries in Maputo city and province], but we are doing it as a pilot project first, to see how it works, before moving on to other penal establishments in the country,\u201d the minister explained.<\/p>\n

Observing that Mozambique\u2019s prisons currently house 22,000 inmates in establishments with an official capacity of 8,000, Helena Kida added that studies were underway to establish how many magistrates would be needed to cover all the prisons in the country.<\/p>\n

She also remarked that the handing down in sentencing of alternatives to imprisonment was another way to reduce prison congestion. The granting of parole, where legally justified, could also help reduce overcrowding.<\/p>\n

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