Source: Prisons radio station ready to hit airwaves – herald
Addressing the gathering, Comm-Gen Chihobvu (centre) quoted former South African President Nelson Mandela, saying correctional institutions are a true measure of a nation’s commitment to justice, human dignity and transformation. “These profound words remind us that correctional institutions are not merely places of confinement,” said Comm-Gen Chihobvu.Arron Nyamayaro-Herald Reporter
Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service officers and inmates are expected to start presenting radio programmes within the next three weeks on The Bridge FM, a community radio station based at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
ZPCS Commissioner-General Moses Chihobvu disclosed this while opening a training workshop for the station’s radio presenters in Harare yesterday.
The station, expected to be commissioned soon, will provide ZPCS with a platform to tell its rehabilitation and reintegration story to the nation from behind prison walls.
Among the 35 participants attending the workshop are three inmates, reflecting the institution’s commitment to rehabilitation and reintegration.
Addressing the gathering, Comm-Gen Chihobvu quoted former South African President Nelson Mandela, saying correctional institutions are a true measure of a nation’s commitment to justice, human dignity and transformation.
“These profound words remind us that correctional institutions are not merely places of confinement,” said Comm-Gen Chihobvu.
“They are places where a nation’s commitment to justice, human dignity, rehabilitation and transformation is truly measured.
Situated within Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, the station stands as one of the most remarkable symbols of institutional transformation.
Comm-Gen Chihobvu said that following the abolition of the death penalty in Zimbabwe, a place once associated with the finality of life, the former gallows were imaginatively and purposefully converted into a broadcasting studio.
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