The Ghana Prisons Service over the years have provided the inmates, the opportunity to be tought and write the JHS and the SHS certificates examinations.
However, inmates who are aspiring to acquire a higher education, an introduction of a university education by way of distance learning is a divine intervention.
In view of this, the Plan Volta foundation, led by Prince Solomon Stuff, in partnership with the Ghana Prisons Service and in collaboration with the university of cape coast is extending a distance learning program into the Prisons, to enable the inmates acquire a Diploma or Degree while serving their sentences.
This will make them come out as better persons and have hope for the future.
The program, dubbed the Prisons Inmates Tertiary Education Project (PITEP) was executed in the 2019/2020)academic year. Admissions have been issued and teaching and learning has begun. An initiative by the University of Cape Coast to encourage education in the country’s prisons has seen some 59 inmates benefitting.
The University opened a prison campus inside the Nsawam prisons to help inmates qualified for diploma courses. The matriculation ceremony which was held at the Prisons saw the Vice-Chancellor of UCC, Joseph Ampiah, swearing in the fresh batch of students with an oath of allegiance.
At the event, Vice-Chancellor of UCC, Dr Joseph Ampiah swore in the fresh batch of students with an oath of allegiance. “By the powers invested in me, I do hereby matriculate you, admitting you to the rights, privileges and responsibilities of the University of Cape Coast,” he declared to the cheerful students.
Professor Joseph Ampiah explained that the mission of the “great citadel of learning”, is in line with the move to admit the inmates to pursue their various courses of interest.
They do deserve a second chance but who will support them, this project deserve the greater aim of support from the government, all institutions and individuals.
We call on the government and organizations to make budget allocations in support of this novel program.
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