{"id":2331,"date":"2009-11-02T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2009-11-02T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T16:48:29","slug":"big-boost-for-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"Big Boost for Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The prisons department on 28<sup>th<\/sup> Wednesday October 2009, received\u00c2\u00a0 a 40ft container comprising of assorted skills training tools for carpentry, mechanical work, electrical, tailoring as well as electronics materials.<\/p>\n<p>Prison department&rsquo;s Procurement Manager Assistant Director\u00c2\u00a0 Dennis Kofie Harman in an exclusive interview at the New England Prison headquarters said the container was\u00c2\u00a0 donated to them by a Netherlands based organization Stitching Geared Gereedschap.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We made an appeal to the organization through Sierra Leonean footballer Ibrahim &lsquo;Obray&rsquo; Kargbo, who took up the challenges to help this department,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Harman further said the prison department has long since been in need of the items for the training of the inmates.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We were actually in dire need of these items,&rdquo; he said, pointing out that the gifts will be beneficial in encouraging inmates to learn skills that will prove to be beneficial to them in the future after spending their time.<\/p>\n<p>The Prison Department has over time been constrained in the training of inmates, as all the equipments in the workshops had been destroyed or vandalized as a result of political upheavals.<\/p>\n<p>All the mechanical instruments have been damaged beyond repairs and the parts are too expensive and the department cannot afford to buy new ones.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prisons department on 28th Wednesday October 2009, received\u00c2\u00a0 a 40ft container comprising of assorted skills training tools for carpentry, mechanical work, electrical, tailoring as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673,1],"tags":[1384,1385,1386],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-uncategorized","tag-prison","tag-sierra-leone-prison","tag-skills-training-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}