Cameroon: North West - Human Rights Commission Sizes Up Practices

The North West chapter of the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms ( NCHRF), is on record with a recommendation for the education of illiterates and young prisoners to become mandatory. The Commission has also appealed to the administration of the Penitentiary centers to inspire and help inmates towards an honest life in society after prison terms with a chance to generate and save income from their works in prison.

In effect, the visiting delegation from the North West branch of the Human Rights Commission to prisons and detention centers in Ndop, Nkambe and Kumbo recently appealed to the government to release the text of application on alternative penalties provided for in Section 26 of the New Penal code to help decongest crowded prisons.

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