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The need for additional facilities to adequately accommodate women deportees and former prisoners were one of several issues raised at a graduation ceremony of a pre-release programme for inmates of the Golden Grove Maximum Security Prison, Arouca, on Wednesday.
The programme which aims to provide vocational training and life-skills for the inmates to prepare them for life after release was one of several initiatives involving the TT Prison Service and non-governmental organisation (NGO) Vision on Mission.
During her feature address Vision on Mission’s CEO Giselle Chance said as the number of female deportees returning to T&T is expected to increase, there was urgent need for sufficient facilities to house them.
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