RELOCATE CENTRAL PRISONS-REGIONAL MINISTER

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The Ashanti Regional Minister, Dr. Samuel Sarpong says the time has come for the relocation of the Kumasi Central Prisons from its present location which has become the hub of commercial activities in the metropolis. The relocation will also allow for the expansion of the Central Prisons to address the problem of acute congestion which is seriously compromising the security, safety and health of both the inmates and Prison officials. 

 The Regional Minister made the point while interacting with the media during his official visit to the Kumasi Central Prisons. It was to enable him to acquaint himself with the actual conditions in the correctional facility. 

Dr. Sarpong explained that Prison is meant to reform convicted deviant members of the larger society. For this reason, people should accept inmates when they are released upon completion of their sentences. 

The Ashanti Regional Commander of the Ghana Prison Service, Deputy Controller of Prisons, William Ofori Anoff, said congestion is among the major challenges at the facility saying, the Central Prison built in 1901 to accommodate about 600 inmates, now houses two thousand, 109 deviants who are either on remand or convicted by the law courts. 
DCOP Anoff mentioned inadequate funding, transportation difficulties and shortage of essential medical supplies with ill-equipped infirmaries as some of the main challenges the management is presently facing. 

The Regional Prison Commander, however noted with satisfaction, the success rate of the inmates who have been sitting for both the Basic Education Certificate Examinations, BECE, and West Africa Secondary Schools Certificate Examinations, WASSCE since 2011, saying that all the 25 BECE and eight WASSCE candidates passed their respective examinations. 
Currently, 24 others are being prepared for the two examinations this academic year. According to DCOP Anoff, 30 other inmates who were presented for the National Vocational Training Institute’s examination also passed with distinction.

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