Inmates at Marondera Prison are set to benefit from music skills as part of the rehabilitation process following a partnership deal between the correctional facility and the Midlands State University (MSU) department of music and musicology, it has been established.
BY STEPHEN CHADENGA
The partnership will see students from MSU being involved in music skills transfer like playing instruments and singing as part of Marondera Prison’s inmates’ rehabilitation programme.
The prisoners are set to benefit from state-of-the-art music instruments at MSU, which they would learn to play through assistance from the university’s students.
MSU acting director for work-related learning, Maxwell Chaerera, said the partnership will also benefit the university, as students would get internship positions at the prison.
“These students would, therefore, transfer their skills to inmates as part of their work-related learning duties and responsibilities,” he said at recent Prisons Day celebrations at Marondera Prison.
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The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services has rehabilitation programmes meant to ensure that once prisoners are released, they are able to fend for themselves and become law-abiding citizens.
In recent months, there have been reports of prisoners being re-arrested following their release in May this year after a Presidential amnesty.
President Robert Mugabe pardoned more than 2 000 inmates across the country’s prisons, but in less than six months, some of them were thrown back into jails after committing various crimes.