Ms Anima Wilson, Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, has urged corporate bodies to support equipping prisoners with skills that would enable them to lead decent lives after serving their jail terms.
She said it was important to focus on assisting them to learn trades to make them economically self-supporting and prevent their going back to their bad ways.
Ms Wilson said this when she presented assorted items donated by the Regional Secretariat of the Department of Women to the Kumasi Central
Prisons as part of activities to mark the International Women Day.
These included second-hand clothes, sanitary pads, detergents and soap. The Deputy Minister counselled the prisoners to make sure that they
come out reformed.
Their experience should teach them to lead morally upright lives and to become law abiding.
The officer in-charge of the Female Unit of the Prisons, Chief Superintendent Joana Tackie-Otoo, said they were grateful for the gifts.