Tough days behind Malagasy prison walls

Victims’ families are blaming an alleged deliberated starvation process inside Taolagnaro’s prison, as the cause of their relatives’ death

Those casualties are far from isolated cases, a detainee’s death is no more an exception inside prisons but authorities are repeatedly straining to look down on the issue

Austerity happens to have turned into a major component of life behind bars in Madagascar, mainly due to overpopulation in prisons throughout the whole territory. Harassments, rapes and mass rapes have become the convicts’ daily fate without causing any shadow of reaction from any authority.