Hon. Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, Ghana’s interior minister, spoke at the Passing-Out Parade of Recruit Course 125 at the Ankaful Prison Officers’ Training School in the Central Region.
He underlined the government’s commitment to converting the Prisons Service into a state-of-the-art correctional facility that prioritizes rehabilitation, reformation, and reintegration.
The government is still dedicated to growing educational programs, vocational training, and successful inmate businesses that support rehabilitation, reformation, and reintegration, according to Hon. Muntaka.
He emphasized the need for correctional facilities to serve as hubs for reform rather than merely confinement.
As the Minister put it, “It is not an act of charity but a strategic investment in human capital and national security.”
The likelihood of an offender committing another crime is decreased when they are equipped with employable skills. Reformation and rehabilitation are not separate processes; they must be connected to intentional endeavors.
In order to put this policy into practice, Hon. Muntaka declared that the government would increase funding for prison-based businesses. He stated that industries like carpentry, tailoring, agriculture, and manufacturing, including the production of bottled water, will be essential to a long-term, independent correctional economy.
The Minister also ordered all Ministry of the Interior institutions to buy toilet paper and bottled water produced by the Ghana Prisons Service first.
He said that doing this would not only lessen the state’s financial strain but also increase convict productivity and create income.
He informed the Ghana Prisons Service’s management and staff of the government’s steadfast support, stressing that the commitment extends beyond enhancing facilities and logistics to changing the fundamentals of Ghanaian correctional practice.
Assuring the new officers that their conduct would reflect the high standards of the Service and the nation’s trust in them, Hon. Muntaka urged them to serve with professionalism, compassion, and integrity.
Source: newsthemegh.com