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Government measures need to go further to ensure accountability for those responsible, provide reparations, and determine whether abuses are taking place in other prisons in Mozambique.
Mozambique prison wardens force inmates into prostitution: report
News24
17 Jun 2021, 05:41 GMT+10
Wardens at Mozambique s largest women s prison are forcing inmates into prostitution and punishing those who refuse, according to a local anti-corruption organisation.
In a report published Tuesday by the Centre for Public Integrity, guards at the Ndlavela Women s Prison in Maputo are forcing inmates to have sex with clients for between $50 and $250, cash which the wardens pocketed for themselves.
The report said:
The women are taken out of the prison three or four times a week and taken to guesthouses where they are pimped out to clients who were well placed in society.