[ 2017-04-28 ]

ASP Bukari noted that the conditions at the prisons were not what something good could be said about

Kumasi ‘Prison inmates live by miracle’ - PRO
Inmates at the Kumasi Central Prisons have been
living by miracle, Ashanti Regional Public
Relations Officer of the Ghana Prisons Service
(ASP), Richard Bukari, has said.

Describing their conditions as appalling, Mr.
Bukari bemoaned the daily feeding rations given
them for the upkeep of the inmates.

According to him, the daily stipend of 1.80
pesewas per inmate was totally inadequate for them
to get healthy or nutritious foods, adding they
are living by the Grace of God.

ASP Bukari noted that the conditions at the
prisons were not what something good could be said
about.

Apart from the health and feeding challenges, he
noted that the authorities were also battling with
the unending issue of congestion as the over 1,600
inmates have been piled up in cells like
sardines.

Stressing on the huge numbers at the main central
prisons, the PRO said instead of the 450 inmates
the facility was built to take, authorities
however had no choice than to cope with the
current 1,600 inmates even though the stress level
was so much.

Ashanti Regional Prisons PRO, who was speaking
with Oheneba Nana Asiedu of Silver FM therefore,
attributed the frequent outbreak of communicable
diseases at the cells to the over congestion,
adding that many have contracted diseases that
hitherto their incarceration were known to have.

Reacting to allegations by an inmate who spoke to
an undercover journalist in Kumasi about some
extortions at the facility, the PRO denied that
the prison authorities have levied each inmate a
hundred (100) Ghana cedis to repair some broken
things at the prison.

According to him, the prison authorities are well
aware of the difficult conditions the inmates were
facing and will not compound their sorry state by
levying them.

He stressed the Prison Service was more focused in
helping the inmates to reform and also learn a
trade or write their Basic or Senior High School
Certificate Exams while serving their term than
any other thing.

Source - todaygh.com

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