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TIL A maximum-security prison in Uganda has a soccer league (run and played by prisoners), with an annual soccer tournament. The tournament is taken very seriously; they have a uniforms, referees, cleats, and a 30-page constitution. The winning team gets prizes such as soap, sugar, and a goat.
The soccer league really seems to be working for them.
*”Over the past two decades, Luzira has gone from being a notoriously violent and squalid place, to one of the most progressive prisons in Africa. By any standard, it is a success. It has a recidivism rate of less than 30%, better than its counterparts in the UK, where, according to the Prison Reform Trust, 46% of former inmates commit crimes on release. Its schools, staffed by the prisoners themselves, put almost every inmate through a programme of education that stretches from basic literacy to the completion of high school and then offers vocational training (tailoring and carpentry) or university degrees in law with the local Royal Mutessa University and the University of London. Luzira’s infrastructure is dilapidated, its poverty is harsh but it is a deeply humane environment. The philosophy behind the prison is very simple. “People need to be busy”, the officer-in-charge, Wilson Magomu, told me.”*
If this is the prison I’m thinking of, Vice did a great 30-minute documentary on it. Highly recommended.
That poor poor goat. She wasn’t ready! **SHE WASN’T READY!**
Just here to see the goat comments – didn’t disappoint.
To wash the goat?
1. Wash goat with soap.
2. Take it back to your prison cell for a sugar treat
3. ??
AFAIK, a lot of prisons, even those which the prisoners are not supposed to leave, do something similar as a way to keep people occupied and not engaged in other activities.
Soap, Sugar and a Goat is my new band name.
*”Moses was sentenced to 20 years for murder. When he first arrived at Luzira Upper Prison, Uganda’s only maximumsecurity facility on the southern edge of Kampala, he was filled with despair. His days were bleak and purposeless. He was paralysed by remorse and did not know how he would serve out his term.”*
Why is this article trying to make me feel bad for a murderer?
*”But as the shock began to wear off, he realised Luzira was not like other prisons. The inmates could play football. And the football was not just kickabouts in the yard. There were formal clubs and tournaments, even fans. In 2006, Moses began to play as an accomplished striker with a prison team.*
*Now, nine years later, he is the chairman of UPSA, the Upper Prison Sports Association, football’s sovereign body in Luzira. Moses, among his other duties, is also a warder, personally responsible for the care of two dozen psychiatric patients, who are among the most vulnerable inmates in the jail. He shares their ward, organises their medication and generally keeps an eye on them. This is not his toughest duty, however. “Being chairman of UPSA is the most challenging, stressful, disturbing and tiresome work that one can do in the Upper Prison,” he said. His daily duties include finding sponsors, organising tournaments, dealing with disciplinary issues, and running a player registration and transfer system.”*
Well, props to him for trying to be a better person.
*Only on ESPN8 The Ocho*
This is how we do sanction in Uganda.
> cleats
If you’re here to imply they’re going to have sex with the goat you missed it by about 50 comments already.
Poor goat
The goat is for sex.
Soap, sugar and a goat sounds like Netflix and chill.
That poor goat.
>soap
Alright
>sugar
Reasonable
>goat
What
They did this but with baseball at the old Idaho Penitentiary in Boise. The maximum security prison had a baseball field just outside the walls where local teams would compete against the inmates. In fact the inmates ended up winning most of their games despite not being allowed to practice outside of the actual games. They also had three separate basketball courts inside the prison because the warden found that letting the inmates work together and compete in sports kept them from starting fights or getting to trouble during their stay.
VI VON ZULUL
Ah I see Archer has moved from Lacrosse on pirate islands to Soccer Leagues in Uganda.
A goat?
Oh no.
Don’t drop the goat.
Cleats lol
Can I just send soap and sugar to Uganda? Someone provide a link.
The poor goat…
What…what do they do with the goat?
vi von
Imagine being a sex goat for ugandian high security prison.
Must have had some terrible karma in previous lives.
$50 says that’s a sex goat
They don’t have soap? ☹️
>and a goat
##AND A GOAT##
You don’t want to know what they do to the goat.
…do…do…they eat the goat…. or is it for recreation (*sly grin forming)
Uganda be kidding me!
Vice Sports did a video documentary on it a while ago. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD4TwYF3t7A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD4TwYF3t7A)
Are they going to clean and sweeten the goat? D:
TFW a maximum security prison has a soccer league more honourable than FIFA.