The Ghana Prisons Service is mandated by law to ensure the safe custody, welfare, reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners whenever practicable. Prisons are a reflection of society as there are...
The UK is to build a £700,000 jail in Nigeria so it can deport foreign criminals and free up places in British jails. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson announced construction of the “UN-compliant”...
One hundred and seventy-six superior officers of the Ghana Prisons Service across the country have been promoted to their next ranks, 3news.com can authoritatively report. Eleven Chief...
A 20-year sentence handed to five armed robbers by a Circuit Court in Tema was enough to turn five robbers against each other in a nasty brawl, Monday. In what is believed to be a possible case of...
A shooting incident that occurred at the Tema court on Monday morning was to separate a fight between two convicts, the Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Prisons Service, has explained....
Japan executed two convicted murderers on Thursday, the justice ministry said, ignoring calls from international rights groups to end capital punishment. The hangings of Masakatsu Nishikawa and...
A child oriented nongovernmental organisation, Juvenile Reform Foundation-Ghana (JRF-Ghana) has launched a charity concert to raise funds in support of released and incarcerated juvenile offenders in...
JUVENILE Reform Foundation (JRF-Ghana) has launched its charity concert to support released juvenile offenders and incarcerated juvenile inmates in the various correctional centres in Ghana. The...
Government has given approval to the Ghana Prison Service to recruit 1,000 prison officers to enhance its performance so as to meet the international best practices in prison administration. Vice...
South African prison officials said Monday that they were considering suspending 13 guards after one of the country's high-security jails held an "explicit" strip show for inmates last week. The...
As part of measures to revamp the agricultural sector of the Ghana Prisons Service to increase food production and to generate income to supplement government’s budgetary allocation, the Service...
The outer wall on the right wing of the Kumasi Central Prisons night collapsed damaging a Tata bus, parked close to it. Assistant Superintendent of Prisons (ASP) Richard Bukari, the Ashanti Regional...
Human Rights Watch has urged Lebanon to respect its moratorium on the death penalty after calls for its reinstatement following the murder of a young student that shocked the country. Capital...
Thirty-One Prisoners remanded for years at the Winneba Prison and Ankaful Prison Annex in the Central Region, were on Friday granted bail after three courts had heard their cases under the 'Justice...
Several reports of unlawful practices that exist in prisons across the country have reached the desk of Top FM which subsequently led to an investigation into the matter by the team of Top FM current...
The Ghana Prisons Service is pushing for the creation of a separate ministry to take care of the Service and also tackle challenges confronting prisoners. The Prisons Service is currently under the...
An acute shortage of medicines has hit infirmaries of Prisons across the Ashanti Region, Chaplin of the Kumas Central Prison, Rev. Canon Paa Kwesi Ansah, has revealed. The situation, which he said...
A Taiwanese man who decapitated a three-year-old girl in public on a busy Taipei street escaped the death penalty Friday as he was sentenced to life in prison. Wang Ching-yu, 34, had pleaded guilty...
Indonesian security forces have successfully rounded up most of the 250 inmates who escaped during a mass breakout from an overcrowded prison on Sumatra island. More than 200 inmates broke out of the...
Seven persons on remand at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison were yesterday set free under the “Justice For All Programme” (JFAP), an initiative meant to decongest the country’s prisons. One of...
