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28 prisoners released in time for Christmas

Dec 20, 2011 News

As focus is being placed on peace, love and happiness during the Christmas season, another batch of first time offenders was set free from prison as part of the Food for the Poor Prison Ministry Programme.
Twenty-five inmates were yesterday released, allowing them an early release this month, so that they will be back with their families in time for Christmas.
Kaieteur News understands that this release is done twice a year- during the Christmas and Easter seasons – the programme releases inmates who have committed minor offences.
A ceremony was held at the Food for the Poor’s Festival City office yesterday at 10:00 hrs where the 25 prisoners were given a “Christmas party” that included food, drinks and money to cover transportation cost for them to finally return home.
Prayers and words of encouragement were included in this programme also.
According to the non-profit organization, in developing countries, the destitute sometimes have no option to feed their families other than to steal food and commit non-violent offences. Sometimes, by the time they are tried, they have spent years longer in jail than their prison sentence requires.
In anticipation of Christmas, Food for the Poor helped the release of the prisoners who have committed nonviolent offenses in Jamaica, Guyana and Haiti. These people were incarcerated due to their inability to pay required fines.
Since the inception of Food for the Poor’s Prison Ministry Programme in 2000, more than 880 prisoners have been reintroduced back into the community as productive citizens. Food for the Poor works with the prisoners before and after they are released to ensure they will not be repeat offenders.
Food for the Poor, the third-largest international relief and development organization in the nation, does much more than feed millions of hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America.
The inter-denominational Christian agency provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programmes that help the poor.

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