by Colleen Barilae – EM TV News, Lae
Correctional Services Commissioner, Michael Waipo, said literacy could improve the mental state of a prisoner and help them integrate into society.
It comes following the launching of a book titled “Turning Point” that has been written by some of Lae’s Buimo inmates, with the help of few correctional service officers.
The book was an initiative of the prison’s rehabilitation programs and was produced over five years with assistance from UPNG’s Literature department.
The Correctional Services Commissioner, Maichael Waipo, has called for more literacy programs to be introduced in PNG’s correctional service institutes.
The initiative has been part of the prison’s rehabilitation programs that is aimed to add skills to prisoners.
The book was written over 5 years with editing assistance from UPNG’s Literature lecturer and writer Steven Winduo.
Other literacy professionals said more training on literacy skills would assist individuals to write and publish more books at a self- taught mode.
However, some of the trainings the stakeholders have been providing are scarce and the CS Commissioner said funding assistance from corporate houses would assist their rehabilitation programs.
