THE SICK PRISONER – An urgent call !!!
Throughout the world, prisons are built to correct people who engage in activities that violate the laws of the country. Prisons are supposed to be correctional centres but in our part of the world, the prisons have become dead traps and cemeteries. People are sent there and they are forgotten. Their loved ones abandon them and even when they are released, they are stigmatise, denied respect, honour, job, and even dignity. In Ghana, Nsawam Medium Security Prison is one of the forty-five (45) prison establishments under the Ghana Prison Service. It is the biggest medium security prison facility in Ghana. It is located at Nsawam the capital of Nsawam Adoagyiri Municipal Assembly, a district in the Eastern Region of Ghana. It currently has male and female separate prisons. It was initially built for a maximum capacity of eight hundred and fifty-one (851) inmates but currently it houses more than five thousand (5000) inmates (an over 587% increase). This massive i...