Emotional interventions and administrative initiatives in the reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners at Osamkrom Camp Prison

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.