More than 600 inmates have been released from Namibia's different correctional facilities countrywide last year, as part of President Hage Geingob's pardon in commemoration of the country's 30th independence anniversary.

-The Namibia Correctional Service (NCS) has eased visiting restrictions on inmates.

-The Namibia Correctional Service (NCS) maintains that the pardoning of offenders remains the prerogative of President Hage Geingob.

-Already living without families, inmates across the country got another knock when they could not receive visitors from their next of kin.

-Nurses at Katima Mulilo have rolled out a screening exercise at police holding cells and various border posts in Zambezi Region.

-Lack of information on COVID-19 has resulted in inmates at the Swakopmund Correctional facility complaining about a decision to suspend visits from family and friends.

-Convicted offenders at the Elizabeth Nepemba Correctional Facility have found a way to assist in education by repairing desks and chairs in the Kavango East and West regions.