By Esther Wright
Jacob Jusu Saffa, the Chief Minister, in the discharge of his official duties has urged stakeholders at the Sierra Leone Correctional Centre (SLCC) to fast track the operationalization of transferring the Pademba Road Prisons to a location outside the capital city of Freetown.
He was addressing stakeholders at the Internal Affairs Ministry on the 26th July 2021 at the Ministry’s Conference room.
The Chief Minister noted that the plan of relocating the maximum prison is long overdue especially when consideration is taken of the high intake of inmates further admonishing the Director General to furnish his office with a programmatic briefing with timelines on the road map to achieve that objective in two weeks.
According to the Acting Director General of the Correctional Centre, Mr. Turay, they currently have about 4,478 inmates nationwide , with 1,888 convictions, 1,391 in Remand, 106 Condemned, 1,027 on Trial and 29 serving life imprisonments.
