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Posted: Wednesday 22 February, 2017 at 6:21 AM

Prison calls for assistance with its education department

By: Jermine Abel, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - THE remedial and educational programmes within Her Majesty’s Prison in Basseterre have been progressing well, according to Superintendent of Prison, Junie Hodge. However, he said more assistance is needed.

     

    He said prisoners would soon engage in undergraduate studies in various fields, enabling them to gain life skills and in turn, obtain meaningful employment when they leave the facility.

     

    But, that cannot come to fruition unless the necessary equipment is procured. And Hodge is making a plea for the private sector to "chip in" and assist by donating computers, educational material and tools which would assist with their plans.

     

    The Bachelor's Degree programmes would be undertaken online by the residents of the Prison and as a result, the need for computers is great.

     

    “The remedial programmes are going very well at the moment. We need the support of the private sector. Right now, we are trying to source some laptop computers for the institution so that the residents can do the online degree programmes. If not the degree programme, other skilled programmes that would assist them after they would have left the prison,” Hodge noted.

     

    Currently, there are more than 200 residents at the facility and many of them, SKNVibes understands, have varying levels of education.

     

    Some have only the basic primary education, and officials have been working to empower them in that regard.

     

    Additionally, the Superintendent wants the residents to be given a second chance when they would have left the penitentiary, as they would all have been through possibly life-changing remedial programmes.

     

    He made a plea to the public to refrain from classifying those who would have left the prison as prisoners.

     

    “We are not only asking the business community but the entire Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis to cease and desist from labelling them as being prisoners. They are not in the institution, they are not prisoners, they are not inmates, they are not residents of the institution because they would have already left.”

     

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