07/04/2008
Story: Mary Mensah
FIVE psychologists from the Ghana Prisons Service are currently undergoing a two-week special capacity building programme at the Galilee College in Israel.
This brings to 11 the number of officers who have participated in the programme started last year.
The Chief Public Affairs Officer of the Prisons Service, DSP Gloria Fati Abudu, told the Daily Graphic that it had become imperative for the Service to upgrade the knowledge and skills of its officers in view of the shift towards correctional approach to prison management.
She said initially the focus of the service was on safe custody and welfare of prisoners but now the emphasis was on rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners into the society after their discharge.
DSP Abudu said majority of ex-convicts returned to prison for committing the same or another offence.
She said the training programme, which is on New Approaches to Psychological Services in Correctional Institutions, is aimed at training the officers in their roles as psychologists in the rehabilitation of inmates and in the prevention of recidivism.
She gave the names of the five officers who left on March 28, 2008 as Assistant Director of Prisons (ADP) Emmanuel Yao Adzator, Rev. (Supt) James Teye Tetteh, Supt Edward Ashun, Supt. Sampson K. Gunu and Deputy Supt of Prisons (DSP) Augustina Mensah Fiadzo.
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