The Eastern Regional Commander of Prisons, Mr Felix Yeboah, has appealed to industries, benevolent societies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to donate working tools and library books to the Prisons to enable them to reform and rehabilitate the inmates.

He said the Prisons needed tools, teaching manuals including computers to be able to teach the inmates vocational skills.

Mr Yeboah, an Assistant Director of Prisons in-charge of the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons, made the appeal when members of the Koforidua Diocesan branch of the St Anthony's Guild presented food items and soap to inmates of the Nsawam Prisons on Sunday.

Preaching at a Thanksgiving Mass later at the Nsawam St John's Catholic Church, the Vicar General of the Koforidua Diocese, Monsignor Joseph Afrifah-Agyekum, appealed to members of the Guild to emulate the pious and selfless life of their Patron Saint and contribute to the needy.

The National Spiritual Director of the Guild, Very Rev Fr Theresa Paul Amoako, asked Christians to remain steadfast in their faith in God and never resort to fetishes for the solution to their problems.

Fifty-five new members were initiated into the Guild while over four million cedis was realised in aid of charitable works during an appeal for funds.