Prison officers who torture inmates will now be held responsible for their acts, including compensating the victims, the commissioner general of Prisons has said.
Dr. Johnson Byabashaija said the new Prisons Act 2006 shifts the burden of compensating torture victims from the State to the perpetrators of the crime.
"It is no longer a request that we observe inmates' rights. It is a legal requirement.
"It is no longer the Attorney General who is going to be sued for abusing prisoners' rights but the individual officer," Byabashaija warned.
He was on Wednesday speaking at the opening of a workshop for local administration prisons officers who have been integrated into the main prisons service.
The integration follows the enactment of the new law, which placed all local government policing agencies under the Commissioner General of Prisons...
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