The church has been asked to provide strong support to the effort towards assisting prisoners to give up on crime and lead normal lives after serving out their sentence.
Apostle Michael Adu-Carol, the Chief Executive Officer of Global Transformational Agents Foundation (GLoTAF), a Christian NGO, said there was the need to pay serious attention - focus more energy, time and resources on the rehabilitation and reformation of the convicts.
He made the call at the donation of 300 Bibles and equal number of Christian Devotional Guides to the Kumasi Central Prison.
This was part of the “Transforming the prisoner through God word” – a joint project of the NGO and Ashanti Regional Scripture Union (SU).
Apostle Adu-Carol said more should be done to promote the integration of the prisoners into society after they had regained their freedom.
He re-echoed the appeal to the government to move quickly to improve conditions at the prison to ensure that they met the basic requirements of human dignity.
The two Christian organizations used the ceremony to recognize the Chaplain of the Prison, the Reverend Canon Emmanuel Ansah, for the good job he had been doing to bring hope and salvation to the inmates over the past one and a-half decades.
The Rev Ansah, receiving the Bibles and Devotional Guides, thanked GLoTAF and the SU for the gesture. He said there could be no doubt about the power of the “word” to heal wounds and reform people.
The Rev Ansah invited individuals and organizations to help take care of the prisoners - to make things a bit comfortable for them
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