Some Female prisoners at the Sekondi Female Prisons have graduated after six months of intensive vocational skills and entrepreneurial education. They were taken through courses in millinery and accessories, interior and floral decorations, cosmetology and soap making to enable them to start their businesses through the startup component of the…
The Bono, Bono East and Ahafo Regional Command of the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) has presented long service and good conduct medal awards to 50 prison officers at a ceremony in Sunyani.
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On January 1, a new law took effect in California. This law requires the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house, search, and refer to inmates according to their preferred gender identity. There is no need for surgery. There is no need for hormone therapy. There is no need for any kind of medical examination. The policy is not optional. Whatever could go wrong?
Last fall groundbreaking legislation gave transgender, intersex, and nonbinary inmates the right, regardless of anatomy, to choose whether to be housed in a male or female prison. https://t.co/bfHxh2bvJr
Nsawam Female Prisons receives mower, others
The Nsawam Female Prisons, at Nsawam in the Eastern Region, last weekend received a mower and other assorted items as a gift donation from the Influential Woman Foundation.
Presenting the items to the Nsawam Female Prisons, Deputy Director at the Influential Woman Foundation, Madam Yaa Boatemaa Agyekum, said: “These items from your fellow women to you [female inmates], we believe, would go a long way to alleviate your plight at the Prisons. The mower will take away the stress of manual weeding and the toiletries and the detergents among others will get you to stay safe from the pandemic.”