CHARLES PENSULO MALAWI is transferring female prisoners to remote jails in a bid to slow the pandemic, but human rights groups say the move could instead spread the coronavirus and damage the women's welfare. They say the relocation ends all family visits, leaving the women isolated and short of basics, from food to sanitary pads. "These transfers are unprecedented, and devastating to many of the women, who are now far from their families and housed in unsanitary and congested cellblocks," Alexious Kamangila of Reprieve, a local human rights organisation, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. The government said it had no…