Moroccan Prisons Allow Food Baskets for Inmates After Eid Al-Fitr

Inmates are authorized to receive food baskets from their families and loved ones, according to a schedule defined by the management of each penitentiary institution, announced the General Directorate of Prisons and Reintegration (DGAPR) in a press release. These food baskets will be received starting the day after the Eid Al-Fitr holiday.

This authorization also applies to representatives of diplomatic and consular corps who wish to visit foreign inmates incarcerated in Moroccan prisons. The ban on food baskets had been taken due to the spread of the coronavirus. But in order to preserve family ties, the DGAPR has decided to exclude religious holiday periods from this permanent ban.

The Directorate emphasizes that the penitentiary institutions will inform the families in due course of the scheduled date and the required conditions for introducing these baskets. It takes the opportunity to invite the families and loved ones of the inmates to "seriously and responsibly commit to making this operation a success, without trying to introduce anything that could undermine the security of the penitentiary institution, while fully complying with the preventive measures against the new coronavirus".