By M.A. Egge
The Somaliland government has announced that it is implementing a plan to implement schools within prisons to improve the knowledge of prisoners.
He was echoing the statements of the President who revealed over the week that special curricula would be formulated and prisons for women and the juvenile would be built as he addressed the correctional forces chiefs.
Somaliland’s Minister of Justice, Hon. Yoonis Ahmed Yoonis, in an interview with BBC Somali, said that they want the “prisons not to be places of punishment, but to be places where prisoners can learn and receive medical care”.
He also said that the new Somaliland government is improving the living conditions in prisons, and is building separate prisons for women, as their circumstances are different from those of men.
On the other hand, he noted that as a government, they will avoid arbitrary imprisonment, and will try to protect the right to freedom of expression.
He said. “It is a major national plan that is standard throughout the world; prisoners should live like other people, and their rights should be guaranteed by the state, and this is the basis of this program”.