Zimbabwe is currently facing its serious shortages of basic commodities and cash shortages because of wrong policies implemented by the Mugabe government and this has seen  most Zimbabweans struggling to survive.
At Khami and Grey Prisons in Bulawayo prison guards  are taking advantage of groceries brought by relatives of inmates then impound and steal for their own use.
 According to some prison guards based at Khami who spoke to The Zimbabwean  on Wednesday they said this is how  most of the prison guards even their bosses are surviving during these hard times.
 Times are hard my brother ,what happens is that we wait for the  relatives  of  prison inmates to bring  groceries  on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays as required and  we make sure that prisoners who are recipients of groceries are not notified about their parcels brought and we share among guards on duty on the day said one Khami prison who spoke on condition of anonymity.
 The Zimbabwean also traced one ex-convict  who was released recently  from Grey Prison from serving a two year sentence who said that, when he was released his relatives told him they use to bring groceries for him every week but never received anything.
 When I  was released  from prison recently I was surprised when my mother told me  that she use bring  lots of groceries  for me every week and leave it at the gate with the prison guards to forward  it to me but I never saw  anything said Ralph Nsingo an ex convict.
 Nsingo also said while inside  they were receiving one meal per day and they had to share one bar of soap per three inmates for two months.
Zimbabwe Prisons Service (ZPS) Matabeleland Region Public Relations Officer Sinikiwe Banda  refused to  comment about  the issue referring all questions to ZPS headquarters in Harare who also did not respond to questions send to them by this paper
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