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The University of Cape Coast (UCC) has hired three inmates from Nsawam Medium Security Prison as facilitators of the distance education program from the university to the prison.
The detainees include Dr Sulley Ali-Gabass, a doctor.
As facilitators, Dr Ali-Gabass, who before his conviction was a doctor at the Effia Nkwanta Regional Hospital in the West region, and the other two help teachers teach as needed.
Ghana Prison Service chief public relations (PRO) Chief Superintendent Courage Atsem told the Daily Graphic in an interview yesterday that 59 inmates are currently in graduation programs at Nsawam Medium Security Prison, where the ‘UCC opened a campus in January. Last year.
Qualification
UCC public affairs director Major Kofi Baah-Bentum (retired) confirmed the development.
He told the Daily Graphic that inmates who had been hired as facilitators had been recommended by prison officers who served as lecturers in the remote program.
He said the university started with five facilitators, but two were fired, the other three.
All three inmates were qualified to act as facilitators.
“Some even have a doctorate and qualify,” he said.
Allocation
Major Baah-Bentum said that as facilitators, the three received allowances for the work they did.
“Their money goes into the prison welfare fund,” he explained.
Speaking on the allowances, Chief Superintendent Atsem said it was a rewards program, not a salary.
By law, sentenced inmates are not allowed to work to earn a salary.
But, in this case, they only receive allowances.
“They are not allowed to withdraw money from the accounts until they are released from prison, when the accumulated amount is paid to them,” the PRO chief said.
Sentenced prisoners
Regarding sentenced prisoners, Chief Superintendent Atsem said there are currently 157 in the country, all in Nsawam prison.
They included 152 men and five women, he added.
Since 1993, no convict has been executed because successive presidents have not signed their arrest warrants.
—graphic.com
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