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General News of Sunday, February 3, 2019
Source: ghananewsagency.org
2019-02-03
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The Department of Psychology and Education of the University of Education, Winneba (STE), called on the government to promote guidance and counseling in all institutions.
Reverend Jonathan Asare, a member of the ministry's Guidance and Advisory Group, launched this call as part of a 25-page presentation that he presented at a seminar held at the University of Toronto. Organized by the group on the theme: "Juvenile recidivism: a challenge for the construction of the nation".
Juvenile recidivism is the tendency of a convicted person aged 13 to 17 to reoffend after being released. An overview in many states indicates that nearly 80% of incarcerated youth are re-arrested within three years of release.
The seminar was part of the Group's academic requirements to educate the public, especially Effutuman students, about the negative effects of juvenile recidivism.
Reverend Asare said that if guidance and counseling were promoted, professional counselors would use their rich expertise to guide young people, which would contribute to efforts to resolve juvenile recidivism in society.
He said the government had spent huge amounts of money on prisoners, adding that recidivism increased the government's financial burden in order to reform offenders.
Reverend Asare said that the 2018 statistics for juvenile detention centers indicated that juveniles aged between 17 and 19 were in adult prisons because they had been transferred or had committed a crime similar to that of They had committed before.
He said that most crimes committed by minors were related to poor parental care and called on parents not to avoid their obligation to support their children.
However, he urged children to be content with what their parents provided and also avoid bad business in order to avoid finding themselves in the penitentiary centers for the elderly.
Paul Awedoba Chirapanga, Head of Prison Services, said that the CCS faced a number of problems, including the lack of learning / teaching materials for reform and reintegration, the lack of counselors in prisons in Ghana and the stigmatization of ex-prisoners integration into communities.
He urged the UEW authorities to put in place measures to ensure that guidance students have attachments with the prison administration to help reform and rehabilitate detainees.
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