From Prison Back Home: The Uganda Prisons Service Experience

ICPA 2025 Presentation by Sarah Nalwanga (PID004)

Author

Sarah Nalwanga

Assistant Commissioner Community Corrections, Uganda Prisons Service, Uganda

Ms. Nalwanga Sarah is a Prison Social Worker in the Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) with 33 years of professional experience in the Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Prisoners. Her professional career aims at making Prisoners better persons than when they can into Prison (Rehabilitation) and ensuring that they are successfully reintegrated back into the community as law abiding citizens.

She joined the Uganda Prisons Service as a Welfare and Rehabilitation Officer. At this level she practiced Primary Social Work in both Female and Male Prisons. She has played an important role in the implementation of various programmes namely, HIV & AIDS Care & Management, Human Rights training & Observance, establishment of the first Day Care Centre for female inmates’ Babies. Sarah also worked as Regional Welfare & Rehabilitation Officer in two Prisons Administrative Regions namely, Kampala Extra and Central. Currently, she is an Assistant Commissioner heading Community Corrections, and is working on the legal framework to guide the implementation of Prisons managed community corrections e.g. Parole, Release on Licence.
She is a Certified Trainer/Facilitator and has helped build capacities and contribute to systems strengthening in a number of areas namely, Alternatives to Violence, Trauma Healing, Conflict Resolution, Care & Management of PLWHIV, Human Rights, SGBV and Prison Social Work.

Sarah holds a Masters in Demography, PGDs in Demography and Social Justice, B.A. in Social Work & Social Administration, Diploma in Health Systems in the Care & Management of PLWHIV, Diploma in Human Rights & a Certificate in Administrative Law. She is fluent in English, the official language of Uganda.

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