Daudi A. Aliobe

Uganda Discharged Prisoners’ Aid Society (UDPAS) is one of the most important organs for the social rehabilitation of prisoners and ex-offenders, run under the auspices of the Uganda Prison Services. It is on religious and humanitarian grounds. The Bible says: “I was in prison and you came to visit me…..”
Humanitarian grounds because society helps to alleviate human suffering.
Aims and objectives of the society are to resettle prisoners and ex-offenders back into society as useful and law abiding citizens.

Membership of the society is open to people of all walks of life-religious bodies, businessmen and women, etc. In its endeavors to resettle ex-prisoners back into the community as useful and law-abiding citizens, as a rule, all social actors –prisons social workers, members of the prisons custodial staff, prisons administration, religious ministers, the victim’s members of the family, the neighbors, etc.

Activities of the society include, among others, material, financial, social, and moral support to the prisoners/ex-prisoners and their family members.