63 inmates on the Nsawam Medium Security Prison have formally graduated from the College of Cape Coast (UCC), incomes levels by means of the Jail Inmates Tertiary Schooling Programme (PITEP).
The graduates, who accomplished programs in Commerce (Accounting and Administration choices) and Schooling (Junior Excessive Faculty), acquired their certificates underneath UCC’s Faculty of Distance Schooling (CoDE).
The ceremony, held inside the prison yard, was a part of UCC’s 57th congregation, however extra considerably, it was the first-ever commencement underneath PITEP—a programme turning prison sentences into educational milestones.
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PITEP, spearheaded by the NGO Plan Volta Basis in partnership with the Ghana Prisons Service, presents inmates free entry to college training whereas serving time. Their aim is to equip them with educational {and professional} abilities to extend their probabilities of reintegration after launch.
The programme is rewriting the narrative of jail life, proving that incarceration doesn’t should be the top of the street.
For Matthew Milluzieh, the Overall Best Student of the graduating class who graduated with a CGPA of three.8, this wasn’t nearly incomes a level—it was about transformation.
We entered these partitions not as college students however as people to be reformed. At present, we’re not simply diploma graduates however renewed and impressive people who will show improper society’s notion that when an inmate, at all times a legal.
Presently serving a 20-year sentence since 2018, Milluzieh’s educational excellence stood out. Two different inmates who achieved first-class additionally bagged particular scholarships to additional their research.
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Deputy Minister for the Inside, Ebenezer Okletey Terlabi, described the commencement as a strong testomony to resilience and private development.
He nonetheless urged the inmates to view their accomplishments as a possibility to turn out to be change makers and leaders to encourage others to pursue private improvement and educational excellence.
This milestone is a testomony to what power, character, and dedication to private development and rehabilitation can accomplish.
With training now a part of their actuality, these graduates aren’t simply leaving jail with sentences served—they’re strolling out with levels, new mindsets, and a shot at a greater future.
