Green Corrections; An Oasis Beyond Caged Walls

ICPA2023 Presentation by Redento Tongun and Abdul Arshad (ICPA2023-PID150)

Authors

Redento Tongun

Director Public Relations, National Prisons Service of South Sudan

Major General Redento Tongun Victorio Laku is the Director of Public Relations and Spokesperson of the National Prisons Service of South Sudan. Major General Redento has a vast experience as a career Prisons Officer. He graduated from Prisons Officers College in Khartoum, Sudan, and rose through the ranks to the current position of the Director of Public Relations. He served in different capacities including in administration, prisoners’ affairs, Acting Commissioner of the Unified Police Force in Eastern Equatoria State, Acting Director of Prisons Service Eastern Equatoria State in Torit, Director of Torit State Prison and Director of Juvenile Reformatory.
Major General Redento holds a Master’s Degree in Sociology from University of Juba and a Diploma in Prisons Administration and other Social Sciences. Major General Redento is married with four children. He loves reading and a fan of Manchester United and Real Madrid.

Abdul Arshad

Senior Corrections Officer, UNMISS

Mr. Abdullatif Arshad, is a Senior Corrections Officer and Head of the Corrections Unit of the Rule of Law Advisory Section in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Mr. Arshad has vast experience as career prison officer, who rose through the ranks to the position of the Assistant Inspector General of Prisons in Pakistan. In 2008, he joined the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) and was laterally reassigned to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in 2011, where he served in various capacities, as Prison Reform Officer, Special Advisor to the Director General of the National Prisons Service, Senior Policy Advisor and Head of Corrections Unit.
Mr. Arshad is a Gold Medalist in Political Science and a Britannia Chevening Scholar, who completed his Master of Laws Degree (LLM) in International Law from the University of Nottingham, UK. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Legal Studies from Aston University, Birmingham, UK and was called to Bar of England and Wales by completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Legal Skills from City University London, UK.
Mr. Arshad is a keen Golfer and loves spending free time with his family. He is married with three children.

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