{"id":47248,"date":"2022-12-21T09:26:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T09:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/youth-account-for-60-of-inmates-in-rwanda-s-prisons\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T09:28:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T09:28:30","slug":"youth-account-for-60-of-inmates-in-rwanda-s-prisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/youth-account-for-60-of-inmates-in-rwanda-s-prisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth account for 60% of inmates in Rwanda\u2019s prisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He made the disclosure last week as he officiated the pass out of 444 prison warders who completed courses at Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) Training School in Rwamagana.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Gasana urged the new prison warders to discharge their duties with professionalism and model good conduct among the youth given that they constitute the majority of inmates in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>The Spokesperson of RCS, SSP Pelly Gakwaya Uwera said that it is unfortunate to see the youth making up a large number of inmates and reminded parents not to be complacent on their responsibilities to raise children with good manners.  <\/p>\n<p>She called on all concerned parties, particularly, local leaders to work together to curb crimes among the youth.   <\/p>\n<p>Figures from RCS show that Rwanda\u2019s prisons accommodated 85,666 inmates as at 18th December 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Of these, 80,024 are men representing 93.4%, women are 5,642 equivalent to 6.6%. <\/p>\n<p>Overall, the youth account for over 60% of all inmates incarcerated in Rwanda\u2019s prisons.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45725 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_w_umutekano_mu_gihugu_gasana_alfred_avuga_ko_benshi_mu_bagororwa_bafungiye_mu_rwanda_ari_urubyiruko-655d7.jpg\" alt=\"Figures from RCS show that the youth account for over 60% of all inmates incarcerated in Rwanda\u2019s prisons.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Interior, Alfred Gasana has said that the youth constitutes the majority of inmates incarcerated in Rwanda\u2019s prisons, most of whom facing charges of theft and drug abuse.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-47248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47248"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47248"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}