{{About 43 Women prisoners at Ngoma Women Prison received certificates, on April 2nd after completing a one year course in Bible training.}}
According to an official from Prison Fellowship Rwanda, undertaken lessons made those women feel relieved from the heavy burden and have hope after completing their sentences.
Prison Fellowship Rwanda (PFR) is a faith-based non-profit organization that seeks to be a national movement of reconciliation, restoration, and rehabilitation for all those involved in and affected by crime.
They said that quarrels and hate they had toward victims of their crimes will no longer be there.
Undertaken subjects encourage them to live in peaceful collaboration with their neighbours.
Inmates noted that they repented their sins. One of them said, “We will share the acquired knowledge in our respective families after our release.”
The representative of Prison Fellowship Rwanda, Pastor Karekezi Parfait said the program was introduced to help inmates get familiar with living conditions in prison as well as promoting restorative justice in the criminal justice system and in surrounding communities
“We give them Bible knowledge to prevent them from committing further crimes so they change their behavior and mindset,” Karekezi said.
The commissioner in charge of correction, social, human rights and cooperation at the Rwanda Correctional Service, Dativa Ngaboyisonga Mukanyangezi, said that introduction of bible studies in prisons has had positive effects among inmates.
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