U N Reassessment Team to Visit Sierra Leone Prisons
The Director of the Sierra Leone Prisons service Mr. Moses Showers speaking to the Sierra Express Media on the 22nd January 2010, told this press about his recent visit to Barbados in order to have meeting with some UN delegate in connection of the condition and service of his institution in his statement said the Department is undergoing series of constraints, and in order to alleviate such he has decided to embark on meeting different development agencies that can come to the aid of the department by providing certain necessities to ensure the proper functioning of the Department. (Photo: Moses Showers)
Moses Showers told SEM that he has already contacted such people both at national and international levels and that soon an entourage will likely arrive in Sierra Leone to January 31st 2010 without fail. He said their main reason of coming is to come and reassess the entire prisons service and to know the kind of help they should give the department, further stating that prisons presently lack a lot of facilities which they need to have as their primary duty is to Reform, Rehabilitate and Reintegrate inmates into their society and normal life.
The Director also made mention of the need to consider infrastructural development by providing mechanical instruments for both the prisoners and the technical officers who are responsible for the training of inmates in all their fourteen (14) prison facilities presently operating in the country.
The UN team is going to visit all penitentiary facilities in order to see first hand and know the need of the prisons.  He also revealed that the department is presently embarking on a decentralization programme that is headed by the Deputy Director Alhaji Ibrahim Fofanah , Assistant Director Dennis Kofie Harman and the store keeper chief officer class two Desmond Graywood. All contractors and development partners he made known are privy to this development government department is now looking forward to transparency and accountability.
Director Showers explained the recent development project which they have undertaken by building a new pavilion at their training school at Waterloo which can accommodate up to four hundred participants, mechanizing farming is going on in Manfata, Mankarie, Kenema and Moyamba he asserted. Talking about skills training impressed that inmates are engaged in training in some the provincial stations as this can help to improved on the prisoners capacity building so the can become good citizens after serving their sentences and will help them live normal lives. The other area the director mentioned where the department is looking forward to improving he said is the staff welfare as they are now ready for the restructuring of the prisons department; acknowledging the role played by organizations like the JSDP, Prisons Watch, PBF and IOM.
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