{"id":239052,"date":"2026-07-19T19:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-prisons-face-overcrowding-of-over-5000-inmates\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T19:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T17:01:57","slug":"angola-prisons-face-overcrowding-of-over-5000-inmates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-prisons-face-overcrowding-of-over-5000-inmates\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Prisons Face Overcrowding of Over 5,000 Inmates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Luanda \u2014 Angola&#8217;s Interior Minister Manuel da Concei\u00e7\u00e3o Homem revealed on Monday in Viana that the country&#8217;s penitentiary facilities are holding over 5,000 inmates beyond their authorized capacity&#8211;a situation that will be addressed through the opening of new units in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">According to the minister, new penitentiary units in Hu\u00edla, Bi\u00e9, Cunene, and Cabinda will enter into service, providing better living conditions for convicted individuals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">&#8220;It is a challenge, but we are&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607070051.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 Angola&#8217;s Interior Minister Manuel da Concei\u00e7\u00e3o Homem revealed on Monday in Viana that the country&#8217;s penitentiary facilities are holding over 5,000 inmates beyond their authorized capacity&#8211;a situation that will be addressed through the opening of new units in the coming days. According to the minister, new penitentiary units in Hu\u00edla, Bi\u00e9, Cunene, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,7127,16164,257,34315,7398,254],"class_list":["post-239052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-face","tag-inmates","tag-overcrowding","tag-prisons","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}