This 9 page paper is a research proposal to examine offender rehabilitation in Ugandan prisons. The paper is made up of a literature review, looking at prison issues and rehabilitation in Uganda along with relevant theories which may be used to assess their efficacy, the proposed hypotheses and a methodology. The bibliography cites 20 sources.
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There have been attempts at reform in recent years which have had mixed success, while some prisoners will have only one meal a day and most prisoners still only have
pit latrines, there are some where three meals a day are provided and have more facilitates (Coetzee and Clack, 1999). Overall, it is estimated that about 10% of inmates die
in prison (Coetzee and Clack, 1999). There are a number of issues underlying these problems, one of which is the issue of overcrowding and pressure placed on limited
resources. This makes it difficult for resources to be used for rehabilitation, but at the same time rehabilitation of prisoners, if successful, would help to reduce the pressure placed one
the prison facilities and resources. With the social awareness of issues such as freedom and human rights seeing increased recognition (Mubangizi, 2004) it is may be argued as time that
this translated into actions for the prisoners in Uganda and that the moves trying to better prisoner conditions are responding to this social evolution. In order for there to
be change, there needs to be an understanding and acceptance within the country of the need for change as well as an understanding of the way in which the current
system, is failing to serve not only the prison population, but the total population of Uganda, who suffer the results on rehabilitation failures. This paper will look at the way
that rehabilitation is not taking place in Uganda and assess how and why it is not taking place. 2. Literature Review Many of the African nations have a poor
reputation for prison reform and prisoner, however, with the economic reforms and social developments in Uganda there has been a shift in the way that prison is generally perceived, and