James Camp Prison is a model halfway home and correctional facility established in the year 1948 to receive and prepare inmates who have served a greater part of their sentences in the walled prisons. The goal is to reform and rehabilitate inmates for the effective reintegration into society. Inmates are currently taught tailoring, shoemaking, ICT training and other skills. This effort helps them reintegrate into society more effectively.

Reformation programs such as counseling sessions, motivational; talks with inmates by ex-offenders, corporate and societal leaders, religious bodies, both Muslim and Christians help provide a holistic mind change towards integration into society that should ensure that convicts do not reoffend.

The Prison faces immense challenges such as overcrowding, poor sanitation, and poor infrastructure: almost all facilities in the camp need to be refurbish and properly equipped. The effort requires extensive public support. For the past three (3) Rotary years, the Rotary Club of Accra-South refurbished the camp’s infirmary, helped provide fittings and some equipment and donated medical consumables. For the current Rotary year – 2025/26, the club, through its Service Projects Committee has decided to refurbish the kitchen area and provide a cornmill and an industrial vegetable blender for the camp.

The existing cornmill frequently breaks down, and even when working, sometimes leaks engine oil into the cornmeal. This leads to a situation where the inmates reject the food completely, or when the leakage is not too bad, have to eat their meals laced with some dirty engine oil.

Deliverables

The plan will refurbish the kitchen area, including the cooking shed, walkways and the inner room that houses the cornmill. Specifically. The following tasks will be completed:

Refurbishment of the cooking shed, including floor tiling and painting
Tiling of walkways
Refurbishment of the inner kitchen which houses the cornmill, including:
o Floor and wall tiling
o Painting of untiled area
o Changing of windows and doors, all with mosquito net meshing
o Provision of new cornmill, vegetable mill, metal sink
o Provision of water from a nearby supply and drainage from the sink into the
camp’s drainage network

Rotary Business Objectives and Success Criteria
Completion of the project and handing over to the Ghana Prisons Service.
Usage of the refurbished kitchen area to provide improved and healthier meals for the
camp’s inmates.