Africa-Press – Angola. Three hundred 41 inmates from the Peu Peu Prison, Cunene province, were included in the teaching process this year, while 324 benefit from technical and professional training in the carpentry, metalwork, auto mechanics and electricity workshops.
Speaking this Monday at the commemoration of the 44th anniversary of the Prison Services, the director of Prison Services in Cunene, prison commissioner José Celestino, reiterated the continued commitment to re-socialisation of the prison population.
In this regard, he informed that 105 inmates take part in computer courses and 144 are involved in agricultural activities.
He referred that the aim is to provide the inmates with technical and professional tools so that in the future, when they return to family life, they can perform some useful task for society.
The official commissioner highlighted that under the amnesty law, 162 prisoners were contemplated, 96 being preventive and 56 convicted.
He said that the Peu Peu prison, with the capacity to house 1,500 inmates, currently controls 1,445 inmates, including those convicted and those in custody.
In turn, the municipal administrator of Ombadja, Elizeth Mwamelungi, praised the performance of the local Penitentiary Service in the re-education, rehabilitation and integration of inmates into society.
Founded on March 20, 1979, the Penitentiary Services is an executive body of the Ministry of the Interior whose mission is to re-educate and reintegrate individuals who are in conflict with the law into society, control excessive pre-trial detention, informing in good time to entities
Under the motto “Penitentiary Service 44 years firm in the social reintegration of the inmate, consolidating the Penitentiary production”, the act was marked by cultural moments, demonstration and parade of forces, diploma delivery to the highlighted workers, among others.
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