The ‘justice for all program’ which started in 2007, is aimed at ensuring that persons on remand for five years and above without trial are taken through the court process and given a fair hearing. The program has been useful in enhancing justice delivery in the country.
Despite the fact that few of the prisoners who had benefited from the program returned to commit other crimes, it did not take away the immense benefit of the program to many remand prisoners.
However inmates at the Navrongo Prison Service are yet to have a feel of the program. They say since the inception of the program no inmate there has been beneficial of it. The inmates disclosed this when the Prison Ministry of Ghana visited the Navrongo Prison Service to show love. The prisoners therefore called on government to extend the justice for all program to them.
The Prison Ministry of Ghana mission is to demonstrate Christian charity and reconciliation through extensive ministration to the spiritual and physical needs of prisoners, irrespective of creed, sex, age, religious faith, or nationality.
Upper East Regional Chairman of the Prison Ministry of Ghana, Vincent Chaitey urged the inmates not to feel neglected but have the hope in the Lord to set them free. Mr. Chaitey entreated the inmates not to return to their old ways after serving their terms.
He added that it is the desire of the Prison Ministry of Ghana to ensure that accused persons after serving their tenure behind bars should not end with their incarceration but to ensure they are properly transformed back to the society.
In doing so Mr. Chaitey stated that the Prison Ministry of Ghana willing support inmates of the Navrongo Prison Service with skills and trade to prevent them from re-engaging in criminal acts. The Prison Ministry of Ghana during their visit provided enough food that fed the almost 200 inmates there. They also presented to them use cloth popularly called ‘foose’ and yam worth Ghc 1,000.
By: Joshua Asaah/A1radioonline.com/Ghana
