An industrial training report carried out at Uganda government prisons Soroti main from 19th June to 14th August 2023

Abstract

Soroti government prisons is one of the institutions located in Soroti district. Its situated approximately 1km along Soroti – Moroto highway opposite flying school. The institution is well known for its key role of safe secure custody and rehabilitation of the offenders while placing human rights at the center of their correctional programs. The institution keeps over 600 inmates over custody and are being rehabilitated and trained in various fields including agriculture. A good number of inmates benefitted much from recently concluded industrial training because it covered very many sections of agriculture like crop production and management, fruit trees, nursery production, poultry and animal production and management under crop section, (6) horticultural crops were taught to the inmates. They got good production and management skills ranging right from nursery bed preparation and care, seed bed preparation, transplanting, weeding, spraying, etc. in fruit trees, nursery production, they learnt various activities like grafting, potting, bunding, pruning, etc. while in the poultry section they learnt feeding of turkeys, vaccination, control of external parasites and many others. In animal section also cattle, goats and piggery were subjects of study and several activities were done and among others include feeding, deworming, spraying and so on. Soroti prison is a very good institution for monitoring students because it has got many varieties of activities where students can learn from, they have good facilities, cooperative staff, administrators, and above all they have got high level of discipline among the staff and the inmates also. I therefore recommend that the university should send their students in large numbers next time.