A Government lawyer yesterday told the court that prisons in Zimbabwe are in a bad state and that condemned inmates who have spent years awaiting execution are languishing under difficult and undesirable conditions.
Mrs Olivia Zvedi, a chief law officer in the Attorney-General's Office, conceded that the conditions in prison were bad, but attributed the problem to economic challenges facing the country.
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