Prisons looking at breaking down barriers that discriminate against women

By PHOEBE GWANGILO
MORE programmes should be introduced in prison to break the barrier of discrimination, an official says.
David Suagu, the Correctional Services Assistant Commissioner of Policy and Planning, addressed officials and inmates during the International Women’s Day celebration at Bomana.
He said the department must address discrimination.
“The big challenge is how we minimise discrimination especially against women,” he said.
He said it had decreased over the past 10 years with more female officers promoted to senior positions in the department.
He thanked organisations which had been part of the rehabilitation exercise which had helped many female inmates.
“International Women’s Day is not for those who are free but is about those who are marginalised,” he said.
AFL PNG welfare manager William Yogomin said the CIC rehabilitation programme started in 2015 where the team play AFL withjuvenile inmates.
“In 2016 we moved into the female wing (adult females) and the minimum security unit (where adult males live),” he said.