Meet the Prisoner

Written by: Naqib Ahmad Azizi

Every country has a prison and those who commit a crime, the court would notify them as offenders and would send them to the prison. Many political and criminal offenders are also in jails of Afghanistan. Relatives and friends of prisoners have the right to meet their prisoners in specific days but some families and relatives of the prisoners do not meet their prisoners even in months.

Writer/producer AEPO has talked to some relatives of prisoners, released from prison and a psychologist.

Azizullah, a resident of Ghazni province says:

While I was in jail, no one was coming to meet me. I was very sad and became depressed, and had been set in the corner of the prison.

A Facebook user, Ismatullah comments: I was in prison for five and half a month. During this time, no one came to meet me. I even did not have money to buy some medicine.

When the tribunal announces sentence of the arrested person, his/her family and friends might cut relation with her/him.

 Sharafuddin Azimi, a Psychologist says:  if relatives and friends cut their relation with their prisoner, the prisoner might face varieties of psychological and physical problems and he/she would live in isolation. Isolation is one of the reasons for depression. The prisoner would be disappointed. He/she would lose the emotional relations with his/her family and friends and after release, he/she might commit other crimes.

If the family and friends regularly visit their prisoners, the risk of psychological problems would be reduced; the prison terms would be passed easily and the prisoners would have love with their families and friends and after release from the jail, they would feel safe and sound.