WES Prison - Yambio

The National Prison Service has received equipment as part of a twenty eight million dollar assistance package from the United States.

The equipment – which includes sleeping mats and mosquito nets, aims to improve the condition of the inmates behind bars.

The Director General of South Sudan Prison Services, Abel Makoi Wol told Eye Radio that the donated items will assist in keeping prisons sanitary and secure:

“During the rains, the need for mosquito nets is very high – anybody who has none will be provided with one.

“So, these materials will be distributed across the country. Each prison will receive five, ten or twenty. These are not very many items.”

Mr. Makoi also said that the prison service is committed to treating all inmates with skills that can help them after serving their jail sentence.

“Nobody will be mistreated because he or she is a prisoner; he or she has the rights to good living as an individual, because they become venerable, until they finished their term of imprisonment, why should we not give them best mattress or whatever for their comfortable sleep?”

According to the United States government, South Sudan National prison service receives the largest amount of assistance from the US Narcotics and Law Bureau, in sub-Saharan Africa.