The Uganda Prisons Service is mandated under the Constitution of Uganda and the Prisons Act 2006 UPS to provide safe custody of offenders and rehabilitate them.
@UNODC_EA in 🇺🇬 met w/h @UgandaPrisons Commissioner & Head-ICT, Dr. George Muge to discuss our cont’d support 2wards digitization of criminal justice systems 2 enhance efficiency & accessibility in the delivery of justice services in line w/h @UNODC#StrategicVision4Africa2030
The Camp will run the whole week and will be attending to cases from Mbarara and Bushenyi prisons. It has been organized by the Judiciary in partnership with the Pepperdine University.
The Chief Justice @ac_owinydollo Alfonse Chigamoy Owiny - Dollo, is presiding over his maiden Plea Bargaining Camp as Chief Justice at Mbarara Main Prison
During the Annual Judges’ Conference, we agreed to a paradigm shift from case backlog to case load management and Plea Bargaining is a good intervention in facilitating the shift.
Plea bargaining is not new to Uganda because it is embedded in our customs, norms and cultures just that it had a different name in each community. From 2014 to-date, Mbarara High Court circuit has disposed of approximately 2300 cases under the Plea-Bargaining Program.
@ugprisons CGoP Dr. Johnson Byabashaija @jbyabs has thanked #UNODC for increasing capacity of @ugprisons to manage #VEPs & countering radicalization to violent extremism in prisons thru devt of Prisoner Assessment & Classification tools & #PCVE courses @LesaNyambe@vera_unodc