Ghana Prisons Service to be renamed as Ghana Correctional Service in the year 205 if the National Democratic part (NDC) comes to power, pokesperson for the NDC, Peter Lanchene Toobu, disclosed..
Mr Toobu, who is also the Member of Parliament for Wa West, explained in a media address on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, that the proposed change of name is aimed at changing the negation perception associated with prison service and convicted individuals.
“Changing the name is not a mere change in nomenclature. We are changing the philosophy of the prisons service that from 2025, when we convict people, we are going to send them to correctional centers and not prisons.
“I don’t want anybody in Ghana to go to a prison again, I want everybody to go to a correctional center that when we implement operation recover all loot and you are even jailed, we will send you to go and be corrected, be reformed,” he said.
The lawmaker also revealed that a future NDC administration intends to set up fully equipped vocational and technical training facilities in all major prisons. He explained that this initiative is designed to offer inmates opportunities for rehabilitation and to help reduce recidivism.
“We are going to create well equipped technical and vocational department in all major prisons and that is the purpose. It’s a reform center and not a punishment center. At least deterrence is enough if you don’t even see your family but you dint go there and come back and become worse off.
“You go and steal a cow or a goat and you go back and come back and you graduate into an armed robber, that is not the way to go. We need to let that place be a correctional center so the change of name is the change of philosophy,” he stressed.
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