This was announced by the Commissioner General of Rwanda Correctional (RCS), CGP Paul Rwarakabije during a press conference held at RCS Headquarters on July 30th, 2013.
This ceremony took place at Huye Prison on Friday June 21, 2103. The project of saucepans making which is aiming to improve cooking facilities for inmates throughout the country was officially inaugurated by the Commissioner General of Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS), CGP Paul Rwarakabije. This ceremony was also attended by Mr Jaky L. Villettaz, the Head of the Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Rwanda, the partner of RCS in this project.
Through a working partnership between Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) and Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA), the project of terracing and construction of roads in the selected sites from the Districts countrywide is under execution in order to achieve the goal of having all Rwandese in well planned urban areas. This project is executed by inmates or genocide convicts under community services.
During his last working visit to Rubavu Prison on May 17, 2013, the Commissioner General of Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS), CGP Paul Rwarakabije asked the inmates held in this prison to be characterized by discipline and mutual respect while they serve their sentences.
Having shown that the behavior of some of them was not seemly, the Commissioner General of RCS advised these inmates to give up to the bad behavior, to be well rehabilitated and to become good citizens.
This was said by the Commissioner General of Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS), CGP Paul Rwarakabije during the opening of the third National Seminar on health in Prisons.
The Commissioner General of RCS thanked the International Committee of the Red Cross to have organized and supported this seminar, which aimed at the improvement of living conditions of the inmates and at the capacity building of the agents of RCS.
During the ceremony which took place at Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) Headquarters on 12th April 2013, the RCS staff met to pay tribute to nine former employees who were killed in the Genocide. In his remarks, the Commissioner General of RCS, CGP Paul Rwarakabije urged the Genocide survivors to remain strong and courageous.
