SIERRA LEONE:- WAITING For JUSTICE ?
(The Pademba Road Prison, Freetown)
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The prison was built to house 220 prisoners in the pre-independence era and now holds well over 1,000 prisoners.-
One of the oldest buildings and institutions in Sierra Leone.
It is commissioned on the 14th of March 1914 by the then British Governor-General Clarkson.
What I am seeing in this video raises a fundamental question about the prison system.
I thought this Prison was established to construct and re-mold the broken character of those who lack the capacity to live within the ambit of the law in a civilised society.- Well not anymore.
All I am seeing here is a case of neglect and blatant child abuse, by locking up underage kids with impunity.-
Overcrowded, underfunded, prisoners that aren’t beat to death, die from preventable diseases or starvation.
Desperate to survive. As unbelievable as it sounds, basic primal instinct and survival of the fittest has taken over Pademba Road Prison.
There are no cells, and many are forced to sleep on the open floors, no beds, no blankets, no clothing, no medical etc.-
A PERFECT breeding ground for a broken and disgruntled society, all set to unleash yet another TERROR and MISCHIEF in the not so distant future.-
They say you can judge a SOCIETY by how WELL It treats PEOPLE in its PRISONS.
Is anybody listening?
