The president made the declaration on Monday as the nation denoted the 58th commemoration of freedom.
He requested that 5,533 detainees be ought to be discharged with the procedure beginning on Tuesday.
This is the most elevated number of detainees to be discharged along these lines and records for about 15% of all detainees in the nation.
"A portion of these detainees have been imprisoned over minor offenses: taking chickens, offending his companion, having a contention with a darling," the president clarified.
"Be that as it may, some were kept in light of the fact that they needed legal advisors to shield them well in their cases, while others for an inability to pay fines," he included.
Among the individuals who are set to be absolved incorporate those allowed a one-year prison term and those with just a single year left on their sentence.
President Magufuli said the nation's prisons have 35,803 detainees and the greater part of those areas yet holding back to go on preliminary.
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