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Dec 10 2009, John

WOMEN inmates at Luzira Prison have asked to be granted the right to have sex with their husbands within the prison walls. This, they argued, would help in the rehabilitation of prisoners.

The demand was made yesterday at the Luzira Prison women’s...

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