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Non-custodial
punishment being considered, Prisons Council member
Wa, March 2, GNA - Mrs Mary Amadu, a member of the Ghana
Prisons Council, has said the council was making moves to
introduce non-custodial sentences.
This, she said, was part of measures to decongest the
prisons as well as ease some of the burden on prisons
officers.
Mrs Amadu said this when she addressed a durbar of prison
officers and other ranks at the Wa Central Prisons as well
as the inaugural ceremony of an 11-member Upper West
Regional Prisons Committee.
Mrs Amadu appealed to members of the committee to use their
rich experiences to source alternative funding to supplement
the limited government grant to the service.
Mr William Asiedu, the Director General of the Ghana Prisons
Service, said the government was spending three million
dollars to provide logistics for the service.
Items being procured include vehicles, equipment for the
various carpentry and tailoring workshops and boots.
Mr Ambrose Dery, the Upper west Regional Minister and
chairman of the committee, said there was an urgent need to
provide a female prison in Wa because female convicts had to
be sent to Tamale.
GNA
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