Delegates from GCC countries participating in the 5th GCC Inmates Week visiting the Penal and Correctional Institutions Department.
The Penal and Correctional Institutions Department of the Ministry of Interior is set to start workshops on air-conditioning and refrigeration for prison inmates in collaboration with Qatar Red Crescent.
The department announced this during the visit of delegates from GCC countries participating in the 5th GCC Inmates Week which will conclude at Gulf Mall today. The event is held under the theme "Together to Achieve the Reform".
The delegates from the GCC countries visited the Penal and Correctional Institutions Department. Brigadier Muhammed Saud Al Otaibi, Director of the Penal and Correctional Institutions Department, met the delegates accompanied by Dr Mohsin Moaidh Al Arjani, the representative of the General Secretariat of GCC.
The guests were delighted to see the care and rehabilitation facilities provided by the department to the prison inmates, especially the health and psychological care.
Brigadier Muhammad Abdullah Al Ahmad, Head of the Inmates Affairs Section, Brigadier Ali Abdul Aziz Murad, Head of the Ladies Inmates Affairs section, Lt. Col Jassim Muhammad Al Kaabi, Head of Care and Rehabilitation Section and Ft. Lt. Adel Mirza Al Qasimi, also attended the meeting. The delegates saw the sports activities of the inmates including tug of war, table tennis, billiards and visited the workshops of welding, electricity and industrial units and play halls of the inmates.
Dr Mohsin Moaidh Al Arjani, Director of the Security Monitoring Department of the General Secretariat of GCC, stated that the facilities made by Qatar for the inmates were exemplary and the artcraft and other products manufactured by the inmates showed their skills. "It would help them to integrate with the society once they are released after the completion of sentences," he added. He also said that Qatar was among the top countries to organize visits for families of inmates who were in Correctional Institutions . "We hope that in the GCC countries, all inmates will learn vocational training," Al Ajrani observed.
