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DR Congo: Can community service help decongest prisons?

Michael Nyantakyi Oti

The Democratic Republic of Congo recently released more than 1,500 inmates from the country's main Makala prison in a bid to tackle overcrowding. Yet experts have urged the justice system to focus on community service.

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