Accra (Greater Accra), 12th May ?99 ?

Professor Patrick Twumasi, Chairman of the Prisons Service Council, has called for viable and humane ways of harnessing skills from prisoners to make them productive.

He said, "a productive prison life can be achieved if inmates are made to put their skills to use and those without vocations are assisted to acquire one, using available local resources and conditions".

A statement issued from the Ghana Prison Service on Tuesday said Prof. Twumasi was addressing a joint durbar of Superior and subordinate officers of Ankaful Camp Prison and Ankaful Contagious Disease Prison.

He was on a familiarisation visit, with five other members of the Council to prisons in the Central Region, on Monday.

The delegation inspected an annex block being built at Ankaful, for prisoners in the Anomabu castle, a historic site to be administered by the Ghana Museum and Monuments Board.

At Cape Coast, they inspected a medium security prison, being built by government under a three-year programme to house 600 inmates.