Prison Services
We work with the following African Prison Services to help provide dignity and hope for men women and children in prison in Africa:
Uganda Prison Service
The Uganda Prison Service started in 1896, as a branch of the Kings African Rifle. Its Vision is to be “a centre of excellence in providing human rights-based correctional services in Africa”. Its mission statement is: “To provide safe, secure, and humane custody of offenders while placing human rights at the centre of their correctional programmes”.
Kenya Prison Service
The Kenya Prison Service is a Department in the Office of the Vice President and Ministry of Home Affairs. It contributes to public safety and security by ensuring there is safe custody of all persons who are lawfully committed to prison facilities, as well as facilitating the rehabilitation of custodial sentenced offenders for community reintegration.
Sierra Leone Prison Service
The Sierra Leone Prison Service is administered by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Local Government and Community Development. APP has worked in Pademba Road Prison in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Nigeria Prison Service
The Nigerian Prison Service derives its operational powers from CAP 366 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 to perform the following functions: (i) Take into lawful custody all those certified to be so kept by courts of competent jurisdiction; (ii) Produce suspects in courts as and when due; (iii) Identify the causes of their anti-social dispositions; (iv) Set in motion mechanisms for their treatment and training for eventual reintegration into society as normal law- abiding citizens on discharge; and (v) Administer Prison Farms and Industries for this purpose and, in the process, generate revenue for the government.