RWANDA. MPANGA PRISON FOR DEATH ROW INMATES

the recently constructed state-of-the-art Mpanga maximum security prison in the Southern Province has been earmarked by the Ministry of Internal Security to accommodate death row inmates and those who have been condemned to life imprisonment.
The Minister of Internal Security Sheikh Moussa Fazil Harerimana made the disclosure during a recent press briefing, in which he said that 1,490 inmates, 48 of them women had already been transferred to the facility.
"These are people we have been risking by confining them together with others. They can carry out inhumane acts against fellow inmates so we had to get a special prison for them," Harerimana said, adding that the development would lead to a reduction in visits. The Mpanga Prison will also host genocide suspects expected to be transferred from the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) to face trial in Rwanda.
"The prison has the capacity to hold over seven thousand people and the death row inmates will live in a separate structure,” Harerimana added.