{"id":36464,"date":"2017-12-08T15:05:55","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/17-runaway-inmates-recaptured\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T15:05:43","slug":"17-runaway-inmates-recaptured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/17-runaway-inmates-recaptured\/","title":{"rendered":"17 runaway inmates recaptured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RCS officials were speaking yesterday to the media while briefing them about the institution\u2019s achievements.<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Operations Officer at RCS, CIP Alex Murenzi said that some of escapees were captured immediately after breaking prisons and others were captured from outside the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn partnership with different institutions we try our best to recapture them. We have an example of one genocide convict who was recaptured from outside the country under partnership with Interpol,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner General for RCS, CGP George Rwigamba said that among these who are yet to be recaptured include recent Nyanza Prisonescapees, former journalist Cassien Ntamuhanga, Sibomana Kirege and Theogene Batambirije.<\/p>\n<p>Though RCS claims shortage of officers, officials said that it is not the cause behind escaping.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe get challenged when it comes to going in courts and hospital among other services, when six inmates are escorted by one officer to the hospital while they are seeking different services; it is difficult to manage their movements. That is the where they escape from but we also pay much attention,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to RCS Rwandan prisons accommodate 64,757 inmates with 1694 RCS officers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23121 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rwigamba.jpg\" alt=\"The Commissioner General for RCS, CGP George Rwigamba\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwanda Correctional Services (RCS) has said that since January this year, 25 inmates escaped from different prisons but 17 among them were recaptured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36464"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36464"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}