Huambo - Farming production for the self-sufficiency of the penal population is the focus of action of the new director of the Huambo Prison Service, prison commissioner José Celestino, who was presented on Tuesday, in this centre Province of the country, to the local staff of the Interior Ministry.
The prison commissioner said that farming activity, with the involvement of the inmates themselves and the staff who are experts in the field will continue to receive special attention from the institution, with a view to improving the diet of detained and sentenced citizens in the region.
It should be remembered that in the 2022/2023 agricultural season, the Huambo Prison Service harvested 176 tonnes of various products, especially maize and vegetables, produced on 120 hectares of land in the Cambiote and Sambo fields.
The prison official also pointed to the strengthening of human and institutional relations, for a better rehabilitation of the penal population and the redoubling of security levels at the prison, located in the Cambiote neighbourhood, on the outskirts of the city of Huambo, as the main goals.
The new director replaced Chinhama prison commissioner Samuel Jamba, who was transferred to Malange Province for the same position.
In turn, the inspector general of the Penitentiary Service, prison commissioner Noé de Nascimento, explained that the change of the cadres is aimed at continuing the success that the national board plans to achieve in the next agricultural projects under development in the regions of the country.
To this end, the official called for greater discipline and commitment for the improvement of the well-being of the prisoners which might change the current total dependence of the State General Budget (OGE) to meet their needs.
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