SIERRA LEONE:- WAITING For JUSTICE ?<br />(The Pademba Road Prison, Freetown)<br />+++<br />The prison was built to house 220 prisoners in the pre-independence era and now holds well over 1,000 prisoners.-<br />One of the oldest buildings and institutions in Sierra Leone. <br />It is commissioned on the 14th of March 1914 by the then British Governor-General Clarkson.<br /><br />What I am seeing in this video raises a fundamental question about the prison system.<br />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.<br /><br />All I am seeing here is a case of neglect and blatant child abuse, by locking up underage kids with impunity.-<br />Overcrowded, underfunded, prisoners that aren’t beat to death, die from preventable diseases or starvation.<br /><br />Desperate to survive. As unbelievable as it sounds, basic primal instinct and survival of the fittest has taken over Pademba Road Prison. <br /><br />There are no cells, and many are forced to sleep on the open floors, no beds, no blankets, no clothing, no medical etc.-<br /><br />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.- <br /><br />They say you can judge a SOCIETY by how WELL It treats PEOPLE in its PRISONS.<br />Is anybody listening?
