Ashanti Regional Prisons Command roles out maiden youth outreach program at Kumasi Anglican SHS

The Ashanti regional Prisons Command, on Wednesday, 4th June 2025, visited the Kumasi Anglican Senior High School (KASS) at Amakom in the Ashanti region to sensitise students on the operations of the Ghana Prisons Service, Juvenile delinquency, and Crime Prevention.

The maiden event is part of the Regional Commander’s vision of Bringing the Prison Closer to the Public under the theme “The youth and prison, the drug menace and the surge in crime in recent times.”

The School Outreach program is one of the visibility and open door communication strategies devised by the Regional Commander, Deputy Director of Prisons (DDP) James B.Mwinyelle (Ing) and the Regional Public Relations Unit headed by Chief Superintendent of Prisons (CSP) Richard Bukari to demystify the public’s created myth about the operations of the Ghana Prisons Service; especially in the Ashanti region.

The Ashanti regional Prisons Commander, who was the Main speaker for the maiden event, had an interactive presentation session with the student body and admonished them to be law abiding and come to the realization that, the law will deal with them if they commit an offence. He zeroed in mainly on the types of crime for which inmates at the Kumasi Central Prison are serving jail terms and encouraged the students to focus on their studies and stay away from those crimes.

Also making a presentation was the Operations Commander of the Kumasi Central Prison, Chief Superintendent of Prisons (CSP) Charles A. Wilkinson, who took the students through life in the prison, desisting from substance abuse and the surge in crime rate among the youth and the teeming number of youths who are wasting energetic youthful years in the prison; attributing it to factors that can be avoided by the students.

Present at the event was the Headmistress of the noble school, Madam Rebecca Tetteh, the Assistant Headmaster Academics and the Senior House master. The LG Dance group, Lance Corporal Kwabena Wae and a student rapper energized the assembly hall with their electrifying and contagious performances.

At the end of the session, students were allowed to have a one-on-one question time with selected officers drawn from both the Kumasi Central and the Female Prisons, respectively. The Regional Commander donated bags and packs of sachets and bottled Adum mineral water to the school.