Prison Overcrowding at a Crisis in Rwanda
<i> Associated Press</i>
GENEVA —
Overcrowding in Rwandan jails is killing an estimated 250 to 300 prisoners a month, U.N. human rights officials said Friday.
People are dying from lack of food, disease and mistreatment by prison guards, the rights workers said.
“Prisons are our worst area of concern in Rwanda,” said Georg Mautner-Markhof of the Center for Human Rights. “People cannot even lie down overnight because they are crammed into cells.”
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