Legal Empowerment. Capacity Building. Rehabilitation.
Increasing access to justice in Malawi through education on bail rights.
Access to Justice for All
Prisons in Malawi are severely overcrowded. Cells built to hold 80 people currently hold over 200 prisoners. This crisis is, in part, due to the large numbers of people being held unlawfully in pre-trial detention.
Watch our short film highlighting the work of Bail Project paralegals in educating communities and detainees on the right to bail and how to exercise it.
A bail project beneficiary (Steven) who applied for bail after reading our education materials said: “I have been helped through applying for bail and now I need to honour the bail conditions as I wait for trial. Today I'm going back home. My wife doesn't know I am coming back. When she will see me, she will be very excited and happy.”