Authorities in the capital of Warrap State say that more than one hundred inmates are facing shortage of food after the contractor who supplied the prison with food in Kwajok has failed to supply food on time.
Two weeks ago, the administration of Kwajok prison has expressed its concern about the worsening situation of inmates including females with infants, saying that the situation need immediately government attention.
In response, the acting governor of Gogrial State, which is one of three successor governments decreed to replace Warrap State, Santino Akot Abiem, said that the state government has rescued the situation by donating some food despite the economic situation.
Akot stated, “This prison is full with about 150 or 160 prisoners and a prisoner can reform when he or she is given some work to do but we here arrest them and kept them in prison without any job to the government while waiting for their parents to come and bail them out with money. Now they are suffering of hunger and people are running up and down all these days because a contractor has not supplied food.”
“The head of a prison came to me crying that the prisoners are dying in the prison and as the government we bought some food in the market for them despite that they are not doing any work to the government,” explained Akot.
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