Mon, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000   By INNOCENT SIACHITOBA PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu’s unprecedented commitment to improving the living conditions in correctional facilities ought to be applauded by the Judiciary and law enforcement agencies, says Prisons Care and Counselling Association (PRSCCA) executive director Godfrey Malembeka. Commenting on the President’s call to improve the conditions in correctional centres when he swore in the Commissioner of Prisons Everisto Kalonga at State House last week, Dr Malembeka called on the institutions mandated to oversee the criminal justice system to heed to the President’s appeal to help decongest correctional facilities. “President Lungu’s call to improve the living conditions in correctional facilities is a welcome move. Therefore, there is need for the Judiciary, law enforcement agencies like the Police, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC), immigration and others to devise measures that will help decongest the already overcrowded correctional centres,” he said. Dr. Malembeka further explained that the […]