The Ashanti Regional Command of the Ghana Prison Service is proposing an immediate relocation of the Kumasi Central Prisons to decongest the installation especially in the face of Covid-19 pandemic.
Established in 1901 by the British colonial authorities to accommodate about 450 prisoners, the prison now houses around 1,981 inmates.
Obviously, the security installation has been overpopulated over decades and officials believe it is about time it was relocated to a more spacious facility to accommodate the growing number of inmates.
Speaking in an interview Ashanti Region Public Relations Officer for the Service, DSP Richard Bukari, told host Aduananba Kofi Asante Ennin that “the inmates are unable to observe social distance which is a mandatory protocol in fighting the deadly Covid-19 [disease] because hundreds of inmates are packed in small cubicles”, a situation, he added, “we cannot pretend that all is well but the truth is that it is impossible to fight Covid-19 in an unlikely event if some of the inmates get infected”.
Source : 3news.com
