HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE NYARUGENGE PRISON
NYARUGENGE Correctional Facility is located in NYARUGENGE District MAGERAGERE sector and the only prison in Kigali capital city of Rwanda, this new and modern facility merged the two former prisons; GASABO Correctional Facility and historical Kigali prison known as PCK 1930. “PCK 1930 prison Central de Kigali”.
The building of NYARUGENGE Correctional Facility is structured in three wings including; male wing, female wing and maximum security wing each wing is internally installed with water, lighting, toilets, recreation grounds, church, mosques and medical central.
This Correctional Facility was constructed with the occupancy rate of at least 10000 inmates only. NYARUGENGE Correctional Facility currently houses about 9000 inmates the population figures are not always fixed because of continuous entry of detainees and regular release.
