The Ashanti Regional Prisons Service is improvising to ease congestion and address feeding challenges in its facilities.
Acknowledging the infrastructure deficit and inadequate feeding allowances for inmates, the Acting OIC of the Kumasi Central Prisons, CSP Tachie Kofi, has highlighted that the service has devised a strategy to alleviate overcrowding.
This involves relocating inmates to various farming stations and camps, helping to reduce the strain on prison resources while engaging inmates in productive activities.
The Ghana Prisons Service has long raised concerns about feeding challenges and congestion in various prisons, which pose serious health risks.
Despite efforts by successive governments to address the issue, overcrowding and feeding remain major challenges.
At the Kumasi Central Prison, nearly 2,000 inmates are confined in facilities originally designed to accommodate only 500.
In response, CSP Tachie Kofi, Acting OIC of the Kumasi Central Prison has highlighted that they have resorted to transferring inmates to farming stations, both to ease congestion and to cultivate food to supplement the inadequate feeding allowance.
He appealed to the general public for support, dispelling the misconception that prison officers keep donated items for themselves instead of using them for the benefit of inmates.
“I want to appeal to individuals, religious bodies, organisations that our doors are open. Whoever has something to donate to prisons, that person is welcome. Just to get something to complement what the government is giving the inmates.
“We have overcrowding. Kumasi Central Prison is supposed to take about 500 inmates but today, we have 1,572 inmates who are currently in our custody.”
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