To Boost Inmates’ Skills The Government Set to Integrate TVET Programs into Correctional Facilities
To Boost Inmates’ Skills The Government Set to Integrate TVET Programs into Correctional Facilities. The State Department of Correctional Services places a strong emphasis on improving the vocational training and formal education of inmates in line with the reform and rehabilitation strategy.
Principal Secretary (PS) Salome Bekko said that she wants to follow the value chain of Education and Vocational Education (TVET), which consists of the vocational sector, to determine how to expand the sector.
According to Bacon, some inmates go to university, while others have skills such as sewing, welding and digitization that they can use and become self-sufficient after incarceration.
He said the government needs to create more jobs, and said the State Department is reorganizing several branches to give more skills to prisoners in the correctional industry.
He said, the prison sector includes various industries that inmates are involved in, including tailoring, carpentry, welding and the prison farm where the institution can grow and grow crops.
“We are the best furniture manufacturers in the country and when we are paid to increase the cost of importing goods, we call on the public to support us as part of the proceeds will go back to train the prisoners. vocational training and ensure they get certification from related institutions and NITA,” he said.
The PS spoke during a familiarization visit at Shimo la Tewa Maximum Security Prison in Mombasa. He said he was following the president’s order to inspect facilities, staff quarters and prison cells in all prisons to assess the needs of staff and prisoners.
“I am here to check ongoing and stalled projects, find out the reasons for these stalled projects and determine what can be done to improve the situation,” he said.
During the visit, he said he had the opportunity to interact with the inmate, who gave him a list of requests and promised to investigate.
He said restored visitation rights and revised prison uniforms were a problem.
“In Shimo la Tewa Maximum Prison, we have a textile industry and I found out that they produce prison uniforms. “Out of the 900 planned, 700 have been produced and we hope to increase this number continuously.”
The PS informed that there are plans to rehabilitate farms, assess the condition of farmland and provide shoes for himself and his people to rehabilitate leather factories. .
He said he will continue to investigate staff motivation, starting with employee motivation, and said the department will focus on the welfare of staff and inmates.
He also said that his department hopes to work with the National Commission for the Administration of Justice to increase the number of facilities and bring more outside courts to the courts to reduce prison overcrowding.
According to the Secretary of State (PS), the concept of an alternative justice system is evolving in Mombasa, as reported by the County Commissioner (CC).
He said that about 70 percent of the problems are solved outside the Probation Service in cooperation with the SS and the Probation Service.
“We are going to extend it to prison terms because I have established that the number of people released is less than the number of people detained,” he said.
On land ownership, the PS informed that a Task Force has been formed and information has been collected on the number of land lots without land certificates. He is now taking help from relevant departments to get legal documents for all jails.