Due to administrative inefficiencies, prisoners in Zimbabwe's Chikurubi maximum prison have resorted to using buckets for toilets and the Holy Bible as toilet paper.

It never rains but pours for Zimbabwe’s disgraced Chikurubi Maximum Prison which has attracted negative media attention involving administrative issues or lack thereof. Prisoners in Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi maximum prison have resorted to using buckets for toilets and the Holy Bible as toilet paper.

The Zimbabwe Prisons’ spokesperson Elizabeth Banda recently appealed to the relatives of the inmates to chip in and help the troubled maximum prison,  “We therefore appeal to relatives visiting inmates to at least help by bringing in some tissues as this will go a long way in helping both the inmates and the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services in general.”

The condition in which the prisoners are living is apalling as most of the prison toilets are dysfunctional or too few to accommodate all the prisoners. According to the Daily Sun, most of the cells in the prison do not have toilets and inmates have now resorted to using buckets to relieve themselves. As if that is not enough they are  forced to use bibles as a toilet paper because they are only given one toilet roll each every two weeks,which is a far cry from what an average person uses.

This follows reports about food riots that haunted the same prison about a month ago which saw five inmates being shot dead and left several others injured

Source: Daily Sun

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