Camp Court is an initiative where courts sit in prisons, as a way of quickly delivering justice to those who have over stayed on remand and the ill.

The Camp Court was introduced to Malawi borrowing from a practice developed in Bihar province, India. Magistrates visit prisons to screen the remand caseload. They are not courts for trial.

And according to Centre for Human Rights Education, Advice and Assistance (CHREAA) Executive Director Victor Mhango, the court camps were held at Limbe Police Station and Bvumbwe Reformatory Centre where about 35 inmates-incarcerated for minor offences- were granted bail last week alone.

On Thursday, according to Mhango, the courts also camped at Chichiri Prison where over 40 inmates accessed justice