{UAH} The Naked Prison

The Naked Prison

There’s nothing funny about an enforced stint in Chikurubi Prison – Robert Mugabe’s notorious hell-hole on the outskirts of Harare. Here, disease, filth and violence are endemic; the temperature often drops as low as zero degrees and prisoners have been known to suffer up to two years without sunlight. However, none of that compares to the strangest aspect of all: new prisoners are often required to spend over a year completely naked.

Seriously: Kevin Woods, Michael Smith and Philip Conjwayo were incarcerated in 1988. For the first eighteen months, they were forced to do everything butt-naked. Even when the temperature dropped below freezing they were denied blankets or even a rag to wrap themselves in. How or why they eventually got clothes is a mystery, but if there’s anything worse than spending one and a half years naked in a violent African jail, we’ve yet to hear it.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

"Even a small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim Hightower