ASHESI UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ANALYSIS OF THE REHABILITATION OF INMATES AT THE NSAWAM MEDIUM SECURITY PRISON By SELORM KWAMI ANSRE Dissertation submitted to the Department of Business Administration Ashesi University College In partial fulfillment of Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration MAY 2010 i DECLARATION I hereby declare that this dissertation is the result of my own original work and that no part of it has been presented for another degree in this university or elsewhere. Candidate’s Signature:…………………………………………………………………… Candidate’s Name:……………………………………………… Date:………………………….. I hereby declare that the preparation and presentation of the thesis were supervised in accordance with the guidelines on supervision of thesis laid down by Ashesi University College. Supervisor’s Signature:…………………………………………………………………….. Supervisor’s Name:……………………………………………. Date:………………………………….. ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Without God, this study would not have been possible. He gave me strength and a positive attitude to make this study a success. I am particularly grateful to Dr. Esi Ansah, my supervisor for her immense help and guidance throughout the period of this study. She gave very constructive criticism which helped in conducting the study. Special thanks also go to Mr. and Mrs. Ansre (parents) for bearing my financial costs related to this work. I dedicate this work to my mother – Mrs. Edith Ansre; she always helped with her views, checking on my progress of the work and her prayers. There are so many friends to thank - I am very grateful to my friends for the diverse ways in which they helped me in this work, especially Maxwell Vorsah who got me access into the prison. Their views came in handy and helped through the study. Finally, I am grateful to Rev. Prof. Dr. Gilbert Ansre for taking some time off his schedule to go through this study and with his experience, giving advice on how to go about the study. To the Business faculty, I thank you for all the support given to me throughout the period of this study. Selorm Kwami Ansre May 2010 iii ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION ANALYSIS OF THE REHABILITATION OF INMATES IN THE NSAWAM MEDIUM SECURITY PRISON Crime is on the ascendency in Ghana and prisons are becoming overcrowded. Vocational training is the main method by which Ghanaian prisons seek to reform offenders and put this trend in check, yet recidivism is on the increase in our prisons after inmates have gone through the various rehabilitation programmes. This study seeks to evaluate the rehabilitation programmes in the Nsawam Medium Security Prison and whether any meaningful rehabilitation process has been achieved by interviewing 68 trainee inmates; a sample size collated through the systematic sampling approach. Interview questions were geared towards the aims of this study and required information such as intentions towards training, future plans with regards to the training, performance of supervisors, conditions of tools used, problems faced during the rehabilitation programmes as well as suggested solutions to these problems. The findings of the study confirm the view that with proper direction and supervision, vocational training can serve as a method by which offenders can be reformed. This is supported by the fact that almost all the recidivists interviewed during the study were either unemployed or employed in illegal activities. iv Besides almost all of the trainees (92.6%) are satisfied with their training and as much as 70% intend to utilize vocational skills learnt in prison after discharge. Their rehabilitation process is however beleaguered with problems such as lack of tools, lack of instructors and the lack of workshops which need to be addressed if the programme is supposed to yield desirable results. Keywords: Prison rehabilitation, (vocational) rehabilitation programme, trainee inmates, Ghanaian Prison (Nsawam Prison), Recidivists. v CONTENTS DECLARATION .......................................................................................................... i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................... iii ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION ......................................................................... iv CONTENTS .............................................................................................................. vi LIST OF FIGURES ................................................................................................. viii CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION .............................................................................. 1 1.1 Background of the Study ................................................................................. 1 1.2 Problem Definition .......................................................................................... 3 1.3 Objective of the study .................................................................................... 6 1.4 Underlying Assumptions .................................................................................. 6 1.6 Conceptual Framework ................................................................................... 7 1.7 Significance of the Study ................................................................................ 8 1.8 Organization of study ......................................................................................... 9 2.1 Social views on the rehabilitation of prisoners .................................................. 11 2.2 Reform Methods .......................................................................................... 12 2.3 Vocational Training ....................................................................................... 13 2.5 Post-release and Recidivism of inmates .......................................................... 16 CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY .......................................................................... 19 3.1 Introduction ................................................................................................ 19 3.2 The Study Area ............................................................................................ 21 3.3 The preliminary field work ............................................................................. 23 3.4 Sample and Sampling Technique.................................................................... 24 3.5 Data Instrument .......................................................................................... 25 3.6 Data Collection Method ................................................................................. 26 3.7 Data collection limitations ............................................................................. 26 CHAPTER FOUR: DATA ANALYSIS .......................................................................... 29 4.1 Demographic profile ..................................................................................... 29 4.2 Occupation before conviction and Training pursued .......................................... 31 4.3 Recidivism and Occupations before conviction ................................................. 32 4.4 Sentence Period and Type of Training ............................................................ 33 4.4 Present offences .......................................................................................... 35 vi 4.5 How vocations are chosen ............................................................................. 36 4.6 Inmates and their field of training ................................................................. 37 4.7 Intention to use training after prison .................................................................. 38 4.8 Problems faced in Training ............................................................................ 39 4.9 Possible problems after discharge .................................................................. 41 4.10 Suggested solutions to problems .................................................................... 42 4.11 Analysis of Data revealed the following findings: .............................................. 43 CHAPTER FIVE: RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSIONS .................................... 49 5.1 Mode of Selection ......................................................................................... 49 5.2 Recidivism .................................................................................................. 49 5.3 Lack of resources ......................................................................................... 50 5.4 Post-release of inmates ................................................................................ 51 5.5 Length of sentence and type of training programme ......................................... 52 5.6 Limitations of the study ................................................................................ 52 5.7 Conclusion .................................................................................................. 54 REFERENCES ......................................................................................................... 57 APPENDICES………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……….56 Appendix 1- Interview questions ............................................................................. 60 Appendix 2 – occupation of inmates before conviction and the training pursued in prison .................................................................................................................. 62 Appendix 3- Number of previous convictions (recidivists) and their occupation
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