Enhancing prisoner welfare: Ghana Prisons Service praises collaboration with CSOs

Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have been the prison’s dependable partners providing the needed support to ensure that the Ghana Prisons Service achieves its rehabilitation and reformation mandate.

CSOs complement government’s little support to cater for the welfare of prisoners’ welfare.

This collaboration, the Deputy Director-General in-Charge of Finance and Administration, DOP Patience Baffoe-Bonney, has commended.

“I am thrilled to acknowledge the significant contribution made by Civil Society groups within the Ghana Prisons Service,” she said.

 Mrs. Baffoe-Bonney was speaking at the launch of a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) project to provide psychosocial and psychotherapy treatment for inmates.

The project will help improve the social and mental well-being of prison inmates for effective rehabilitation and reformation.

Four CSOs including Crime Check Foundation (CCF) will lead the implementation of activities under the project, which would also equip inmates with skills to help them smoothly reintegrate into society.

According to DOP Baffoe-Bonney, CSOs have been pivotal in augmenting government’s support to enhance the welfare of prisoners and applauded the UNODC for rolling out the project.

“UNODC has set in motion a project that resonates deeply with our (Ghana Prisons Service) mission,” she cited.

The project will run for three years.

Rudolph Nandi