St Albans inmates plough back skills at Rocklands

Four prisoners from the St Albans prison in Port Elizabeth celebrated National Corrections Week by cleaning and fixing the Rockland Primary School yesterday.

The prison has “adopted” Rocklands Primary as its community project and inmates who are skilled in carpentry, electrical engineering and plumbing will go to the school every year during National Corrections Week to do maintenance.

“The school is disadvantaged and we decided to clean it up and do a few restorations such as fixing windows, doors and roofs.

“All the offenders who participated in the exercise were trained at St Albans and are now ploughing back their skills into the community,” said St Albans spokesman Brian Davids.

Yesterday was Offender Labour Day according the National Correctional Services Programme and today is Door-to-Door Crime Awareness Campaign Day.

About 49 correctional officials will take part in the campaign in Elands River addressing people about crime- related problems.

(This story is courtesy of The Herald. Used with permission.)