Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to access the emotional interventions and administrative
initiatives in the reformation and rehabilitation of Prisoners at Osamkrom Camp
Prison. Existent literature had showed that prisoners go through a lot of challenges.
Hence, they require psychological and administrative support in their rehabilitation
and reformation. Apparently, in Ghana, scholarly works on the emotional and
administrative support services are limited. This research sought to explore the
emotional intervention and administrative initiatives on the reformation and
rehabilitation of prisoners at Osamkrom Camp Prison in the Central Region of Ghana.
Base on this, the study want to fill the gap to literature by placing emphasizes on
Camp Prison’s emotional and administrative initiatives in the reformation and
rehabilitation of prisoners at Osamkrom Camp Prison in the Central Region of Ghana.
A qualitative research approach was employed for this research to assess the role of
emotional interventions and administrative initiatives in the reformation and
rehabilitation of prisoners and presented as a case study for one prison unit. The study
used convenience sampling technique in selecting the sample for the study. The study
found that there are emotional and administrative support services available at
Osamkrom Camp Prison. It also identified some setbacks that undermine the complete
reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners such as overcrowding and congestion, lack
of nutritional diet, poor working conditions of the prison staff, inadequate funding of
the Ghana prison service, lack of in-service training for officers. It was discovered
that prisons are inadequately resourced to offer vocational and technical training to
the prisoners. It is recommended that Government should make enough funds and
logistics available to the Ghana Prison Service for its operations and channel some of
the projects it embarks on, such as the construction of Schools, Classroom furniture,
school uniforms and others to the Ghana Prison Service as contracts. Also other
organizations like churches, social clubs, benevolence, and NGOs should also come in
the aid of the Ghana Prison Service to compliment the efforts of the central
Government in offering effective emotional interventions and administration initiative
of the prisoners. It was recommended again that, Ghana Prison Service should employ
and recruit the services of qualified and enough professionals like doctors, nurses,
electricians, masons, agric officers, tailors, social workers, psychologist, counsellors,
pastors and imams to facilitate the reformation and rehabilitation process of the
prisoners.
Description:
A thesis in the Center for Conflict, Human Rights and Peace Studies,
Faculty of Social Sciences, submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the
requirement for the award of the degree of
Master of Philosophy
(Conflict, Human Rights and Peace Studies)
in the University of Education, Winneba