{"id":3393,"date":"2022-01-04T10:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T10:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.rcs.gov.rw\/en\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:18:17","slug":"rubavu-prison","status":"publish","type":"rcs_prisons","link":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/?rcs_prisons=rubavu-prison&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Rubavu Correctional Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"amateka-ya-gereza\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Gisenyi Prison was built in 1937 by Belgian colonizers. It has an area of 1ha and the capacity to house 750 prisoners.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi, the prison resumed accomodating prisoners. In 1998, another building was added to increase its capacity to 2,200 (men, women, children)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2011 Gisenyi changed locations and name to Nyakiriba Prison and later to Rubavu Prison which is found in Gikombe Cell, Nyakiriba Sector, Rubavu District. It is built in a 2ha area.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was composed of three buildings built using steel, in a hangar style. They could accommodate 3500 prisoners.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2014 two buildings were destroyed by fire, and prisoners were temporarily located at CICR tents<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2015- 2017 two two-story buildings were built by prisoners, and they had the capacity to house 1400 inmates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2017 &#8211; 2019 another two-story building was completed by prisoners with the capacity to house 2837 inmates.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Currently, Rubavu Correctional Facility houses 8263 inmates; while its capacity is at 6183, the excess of inmates is 2080, which is the rate of 33.64%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-4 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1366\" height=\"1137\" data-id=\"4474\" src=\"https:\/\/new.rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu103.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu103.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu103-300x250.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu103-1024x852.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu103-768x639.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1366\" height=\"996\" data-id=\"4473\" src=\"https:\/\/new.rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu85.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu85.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu85-300x219.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu85-1024x747.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu85-768x560.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1366\" height=\"911\" data-id=\"4472\" src=\"https:\/\/new.rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu65.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu65.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu65-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu65-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu65-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1366\" height=\"1052\" data-id=\"4471\" src=\"https:\/\/new.rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu58.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu58.jpeg 1366w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu58-300x231.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu58-1024x789.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/rubavu58-768x591.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1366px) 100vw, 1366px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10885,"template":"","categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3393","rcs_prisons","type-rcs_prisons","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prisons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/rcs_prisons\/3393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/rcs_prisons"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/rcs_prisons"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/rcs_prisons\/3393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16274,"href":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/rcs_prisons\/3393\/revisions\/16274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcs.gov.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}