Madagascar: Prisoners Sentenced to Malnutrition

Chronic malnutrition affects as much as two-thirds of inmates in some prisons and is the most common cause of deaths amid overcrowding and poor funding.

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  • Madagascar:  Prisoners Sentenced to Malnutrition

    UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 21 November 2012

    Former gang member Robert, 62, shares a cell with 145 other inmates in Antanimora Prison in Madagascar's capital, Antananarivo. He receives one meal a day of dried cassava. read more »

Photo: Glenna Gordon/AI

File photo: The country's economy plummeted in the aftermath of the 2009 coup and its prison system is rapidly deteriorating.

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  • Malagas
    Nov 21 2012, 10:28
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    All this probleme comes from political instability usual in previous french-colony.If you want to understand more you have just to refer to the nowdays(Nov/12)election in France: who will be the leader of opposition? .We can ask the question if the master is now imitating his black monkey !