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UK To Build GBP700K Wing On Notorious Nigerian Prison To House Foreign Criminals

The UK is to build a £700,000 jail in Nigeria so it can deport foreign criminals and free up places in British jails....

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176 Senior Prisons Officers Promoted

One hundred and seventy-six superior officers of the Ghana Prisons Service across the country have been promoted to...

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3 Convicts Attack Another In Nasty Court Brawl As Officer Fires Warning Shot

A 20-year sentence handed to five armed robbers by a Circuit Court in Tema was enough to turn five robbers against...

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Tema Court Shooting Was To Maintain Order – Prisons Service

A shooting incident that occurred at the Tema court on Monday morning was to separate a fight between two convicts, the...

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Japan Executes Two Convicted Murderers

Japan executed two convicted murderers on Thursday, the justice ministry said, ignoring calls from international rights...

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Foundation To Hold Charity Concert In Support of Juvenile Offenders

A child oriented nongovernmental organisation, Juvenile Reform Foundation-Ghana (JRF-Ghana) has launched a charity...

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JRF-Ghana Launches Concert To Support Juvenile Offenders

JUVENILE Reform Foundation (JRF-Ghana) has launched its charity concert to support released juvenile offenders and...

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Gov’t Clears Prisons Service To Recruit 1,000 Officers

Government has given approval to the Ghana Prison Service to recruit 1,000 prison officers to enhance its performance...

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S. African Prison Guards Face Suspension Over Strip Show

South African prison officials said Monday that they were considering suspending 13 guards after one of the country's...

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Prisons Begin Agric Revamp

As part of measures to revamp the agricultural sector of the Ghana Prisons Service to increase food production and to...

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ASP Bukari Wants Kumasi Central Prison Renovated

The outer wall on the right wing of the Kumasi Central Prisons night collapsed damaging a Tata bus, parked close to it....

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HRW Warns Lebanon Against Bringing Back Death Penalty

Human Rights Watch has urged Lebanon to respect its moratorium on the death penalty after calls for its reinstatement...

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Thirty-One Prisoners Granted Bail

Thirty-One Prisoners remanded for years at the Winneba Prison and Ankaful Prison Annex in the Central Region, were on...

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Ghana Prisons Now ‘cocaine, Wee, Mobile Phone Market’ – Ex-Convict

Several reports of unlawful practices that exist in prisons across the country have reached the desk of Top FM which...

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Give Us Our Own Ministry

The Ghana Prisons Service is pushing for the creation of a separate ministry to take care of the Service and also...

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Medicine Shortage Hits Prisons In Ashanti Region

An acute shortage of medicines has hit infirmaries of Prisons across the Ashanti Region, Chaplin of the Kumas Central...

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Taiwan Child Killer Escapes Death Penalty

A Taiwanese man who decapitated a three-year-old girl in public on a busy Taipei street escaped the death penalty...

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Police and Villagers Recapture 250 Escaped Prisoners In Indonesia

Indonesian security forces have successfully rounded up most of the 250 inmates who escaped during a mass breakout from...

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7 Remand Prisoners Freed Under Justice For All Programme

Seven persons on remand at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison were yesterday set free under the “Justice For All...