The Special Rapporteur being shown the drug store of the Addis Ababa Prison
The prison infrastructure is relatively new and there is a lot of construction work going
on. There are classrooms for formal education right up to grade 6 and the authorities are
constructing another section to extend formal education to grade 10. There are also
classrooms built within the prison for subjects such as accounting and mathematics.
Vocational training is also part of the reformation process in the prison. The prison has a
well established vocational training section educating inmates on several trades including
– sewing, woodwork, metal work, weaving, computer training, hairdressing and home
economics. The prison also has a bakery with a modern machine that produced about 180
loaves of bread in about five minutes. The bread is used to feed the prisoners for
breakfast.
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Report of the Mission of the Special Rapporteur on Prisons to Ethiopia
15 – 29 March 2004