PHOTO: Some of the law students pose for a group photo before the distribution
By Augustine Octavius, augustineoctavius@gmail.com
Female students of the Law School Students Association of the Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia have distributed large quantity of food items and sanitary pads to female inmates at the Monrovia Central Prison.
Speaking shortly before the distribution of the supplies, the Coordinator of the Women on Women at the Law School Students Association at the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, Geraldine Johnson, said the donation of the items is an indication of their concern about female inmates at the Monrovia Central Prison.
Madam Johnson encouraged the inmates to use their times spent behind bars to acquire some skills that will use to better themselves during their integration to the society.
Receiving the items on behalf of the authority of the Bureau of Correction and Rehabilitation, the Assistant Superintendent for Administration at the Monrovia Central Prison, Jenneh Mulbah, reminded the law students about the need to extend their legal services to some of the inmates throughout the country.
According to her, some of these inmates do not have anybody and legal means to get out of prison and there are other detention facilities throughout the country.
She explained that there are more prisons in the 15 sub political divisions through the country and the inmates there actually need assistance.
Meanwhile, human rights activist, Adama Dempster has admonished female inmates at the Monrovia Central Prison not to view their imprisonment as a mean to the end of their lives.
He said there was people who served long time behind bars and later emerged to become heroes and heroines sighting the late President Nelson Mandela and former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Speaking when the Law Students Association at the Louis Arthurs Grimes School of Law visited the female inmates at the Monrovia Central Prison on Wednesday, Mr. Dempster assured the female inmates that the law school students association will be contacting other partners so as to give provide legal services for them.
Mr. Dempster used the occasion to call on nongovernmental organizations to assist in providing some basic livelihood scales for the inmates in preparation for their reintegration in to the society when they are released.
Some other male law students, including former Police Inspector General Patrick Sadue and Lawrence Yealue, accompanied their colleagues on the distribution
The food items and sanitary pad, which value about 2,000 United States Dollars, include several bags of rice, cartoons of sanitary pads, cartoon of toothpastes, cartoons of Dettol, cartoons of bathing and watching soap, among other things.