The Ghana Prisons Service has appealed to philanthropists and other private individuals to adopt inmates and provide them with training.

This according to them will help such persons obtain employable skills to avoid crimes in the country.

The officer in charge of the Gender Unit, Assistant Director of Prisons (ADP) Augustina Mensah-Fiadzo, who has been speaking to Prime Morning, said that some inmates are technically and vocationally skilled but do not have the needed support to be on their own.

Although the Service provides vocational training to some of the inmates, there are no startups for them to begin work after they have been released, thus making them return to their criminal ways.

“When they’re about to go, we train them. What they need is to go out and settle. You just give them that support. Society can support them to settle down. So, you can decide to adopt an inmate. If you adopt the inmate, and whenever she’s going, you just provide whatever she needs, and you make sure that you follow up on the person,” she suggested.

She also believes that idleness and social stigma are factors that contribute to most ex-convicts engaging in criminal activity after they are released.

For this reason, she has urged people to embrace and affiliate with ex-convicts who join society after their prison terms.