Wa Central Prison appeals for retooling
Published:
4 months ago
Source:
Ghanaian Times
The Regional Commander of the Wa Central Prison in the Upper West Region has appealed to the government and benevolent bodies to support the prison to expand its workshop, and retool it to help enhance the reformation of inmates. According to the Assistant Director of Prison (ADP), Mr James Bongfudeme Mwinyelle, only 20 out of over 200 inmates at the prison were engaged in skills training due to the limited training facilities and materials. In an interview with Ghanaian Times here on Friday he said the limited space at the workshop had made it almost impossible to enroll more inmates onto the various skills training available, to them to fit into the job market when they were released from prison.
"We don't have enough facilities to train inmates in skill training, we have five inmates at the tailoring, 15 at the weaving as a whole which means that only 20 out of a little over 200 inmates are engaged in some kind of skilled training, the vast majority are not doing anything which is not good," he said. ADP Mwinyelle said the prison also produced smocks of different sizes and colours which were as quality as those on the market. He said at the tailoring side, the prison officers and other security services relied on the services of the inmates to sew their official uniforms.