A push for softer, smarter prison leadership just got blasted from the top, with Botswana’s correctional bosses told to rethink how they run the system.
Leadership reset at prison conference
President Advocate Duma Gideon Boko stepped up at the Botswana Prison Service Senior Officers Conference.
His pitch pushed humane, value-focused, data-backed leadership inside prisons.
Boko framed correctional work as layered and socially tangled.
Conference remarks leaned hard on ethics over rank flexing.
Crime linked to deeper social strain
President Advocate Duma Gideon Boko tied inmate numbers to wider social breakdowns.
He pointed at inequality, joblessness, addiction, and fractured families.
Pressure on the justice system rises when those...