Malawi turns to community sentences as prisons struggle with chronic overcrowding

New law aims to reserve incarceration for serious offenders while allowing some convicted of minor crimes to serve sentences within their communities Malawi is preparing to test a new approach to criminal justice after the Prisons Service announced plans to pilot community corrections programmes in four districts, part of a broader effort to address severe […] The post Malawi turns to community sentences as prisons struggle with chronic overcrowding appeared first on Malawi News | Breaking News, Politics, Business & Sports | Nyasa Times .