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SOUTH SUDAN / PRISON AGRICULTURE
STORY: SOUTH SUDAN / PRISON AGRICULTURE
TRT: 2:24
SOURCE: UNMISS
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/NTS
DATELINE: 16 MAY 2013, MARIDI, SOUTH SUDAN / FILE
16 MAY 2013, MARIDI, SOUTH SUDAN
1. Med shot, group carrying hoes walking to agriculture field
2. Wide shot, inmates walking to farmland
3. Med shot, working on farmland
4. Wide shot, inmates plowing
5. Close up, inmate cultivating
6. Med shot, Alex Osman, Officer in charge of Jebel Osman Prison and Charles Oyewole UN Police, Correction Officer
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Osman, Officer in charge, Jebel Osman Prison:
“All the food we produce is for the inmates, to feed them, this is what is helping us here.”
8. Med shot, Charles Oyewole UN Police, Correction Officer
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Oyewole, correction officer, UN Police:
“Inmates, prisoners are expected to acquire things in agriculture activities so that by the time they leave the prison they will go out and well engage in farming, and this will enable them to change from their criminal way of life to be able to live as free and responsible citizens.”
10. Med shot, inmates working
11. Wide shot, farm land with inmates working
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Sebith, inmate, Jebel Osman Prison:
“When I am rereleased from the prison I will be continuing farming, because I will get for me some land, dig and help my family.”
FILE – 30 APRIL 2012, JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN
13. Med shot, Raisedon Zenega, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General greeting officials
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Raisedon Zenega, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General, UNMISS:
“This year we will be supporting delivery of a sustainable agriculture project that would generate food for every prison in the country. This is an ambitious but essential task which would require partnership with all concerned and with several agencies.”
16 MAY 2013, MARIDI, SOUTH SUDAN
15. Med shot, inmates working on farmland
16. Wide shot, farmland
Justin Sebith and his friends wake up early in the morning before the sun becomes scorching, collect their hoes and head off to the farm land to do their farming. They have a few hours to cultivate. They may look like ordinary farmers but they are not, they are prisoners at Jebel Osman prison in Western Equatoria, South Sudan.
Food shortage is one of the main challenges facing the prisons in South Sudan. The farming and gardening project is aimed at assisting the prison to produce food for its inmates.
Jebel Osman’s agricultural project is considered a successful endeavor in prisons system in South Sudan. Alex Osman, Officer in Charge of the Prison said produce from the farm was helping the prison in providing food for inmates.
SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Osman, Officer in charge, Jebel Osman Prison:
“All the food we produce is for the inmates, to feed them, this is what is helping us here.”
United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) corrections ddvisor Charles Oyewole is helping the prisons system to develop agricultural projects, which would be useful in averting crises, as well as enhancing the skills of both prisoners and prisons officers.
SOUNDBITE (English) Charles Oyewole, Correction Officer, UN Police:
“Inmates, prisoners are expected to acquire things in agriculture activities so that by the time they leave the prison they will go out and well engage in farming, and this will enable them to change from their criminal way of life to be able to live as free and responsible citizens.”
With his newly acquired knowledge on farming, Justin cannot wait to be released from the prison. He has dreams and high hopes of becoming a farmer.
SOUNDBITE (English) Justin Sebith, Inmate, Jebel Osman Prison:
“When I am rereleased from the prison I will be continuing farming, because I will get for me some land, dig and help my family.”
The UN Mission in South Sudan is helping South Sudan Prison Services in stepping up efforts to establish its own agricultural farm and industries as a means of rehabilitating prisoners in the country.
Raisedon Zenega, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General said during a correction medal parade on 30 April 2013 in Juba that UNMISS would support prisons in the country with sustainable agricultural project that would generate food for every prisoner.
SOUNDBITE (English) Raisedon Zenega, Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General, UNMISS:
“This year we will be supporting delivery of a sustainable agriculture project that would generate food for every prison in the country. This is an ambitious but essential task which would require partnership with all concerned and with several agencies.”
Zenege added that, UNMISS would assist in any way it could within its mandate to build up the capacity of the prison service and assist it in obtaining donor funding.
UNMISS has 95 Prison Officers representing 12 different countries located in Ten States and 17 county support bases assisting the prison service in South Sudan.
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