Inmates at the Ankaful Prison in Cape Coast, the Central regional capital, have embarked on a protest against prison authorities over the poor quality of foods they are served. According to the...
Authorities at the Kumasi Central Prisons have renewed calls for non-custodial sentences for persons convicted of minor offences in order to reduce congestion at the Kumasi Central Prisons. The...
The appeal of programs that put at-risk youth on a path to redemption is as old as "Scared Straight!," the groundbreaking 1980s documentary. Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, lends his celebrity to...
In fluorescent uniforms, dozens of inmates blink in the afternoon sun as they line up in the yard for lunch, the low murmur of their chatter punctuated suddenly by a solitary plaintive cry. "This is...
An Accra magistrate court has remanded to police custody the Lebanese Supervisor at the center of the Marwako Restaurant assault case, Jihad Chaaban. The magistrate, Victoria Ghansah gave the ruling...
The Abeka District Court Wednesday remanded a Lebanese branch manager of Mawarko Restaurant located at Abelenkpe, Jihad Thaabn, for allegedly assaulting a female staff. He is alleged to have dipped...
An Accra magistrate court has remanded to police custody the Lebanese Supervisor at the center of the Marwako Restaurant assault case, Jihad Chaaban. The magistrate, Victoria Ghansah gave the ruling...
The Acting Director of Amnesty International, Mr. Frank Doyi is advocating for the death penalty to be scrapped from the constitution because it is a human rights violation. According to him,...
The Former Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Justice Emile Short has suggested that death penalty should be abolished from the country’s statutory books. According to...
Thai prisons are massively overcrowded with some inmates forced to sleep sideways, a rights group said Tuesday, urging reform in a country with the world's sixth largest jail population. The...
Some women living in Assin Fosu in the Central region are pleading for clemency for male prison inmates in the region. The motive for the appeal, the woman revealed is to solve the woman to man ratio...
As part of their Valentine’s Day celebration, Asafo FM, a local radio station, operating in Elmina in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) Municipality of the Central Region, has donated food...
Chaos in one of the biggest prisons in the country has been revealed in secret filming for the BBC. An undercover reporter spent two months at HMP Northumberland, which houses up to 1,348 male...
As many as 13,000 people, most of them civilian opposition supporters, have been executed in secret at a prison in Syria, Amnesty International says. A new report by the human rights group alleges...
Riot policemen do a head count of inmates during an uprising at Alcacuz prison in Natal Brazilian authorities say more than 150 prisoners have escaped a so-called semi-open prison during a riot, and...
Information gathered by Class News indicate that an inmate of the Nsawam Prisons in the Eastern Region died on Sunday morning just before church service. The circumstances of the inmate’s death are...
A 23-year-old self-employed woman dealing in used ladies shoes from Berekum in the Berekum Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region, Sakina Mustapha, is in the grips of the Police for attempting to...
Four people died Sunday in a riot at a prison in Brazil, the nation's third deadly prison uprising in seven days. Three inmates were decapitated and one was asphyxiated in the Desembargador Raimundo...
Police in northern Brazil are searching for dozens of inmates who escaped from an overcrowded prison complex during a riot that left 56 dead, officials say. The area in Manaus, in Amazonas state, has...
Two new prison camps are to be established in the Ashanti region in 2017, the Ashanti Regional Commander of Prisons, Mr Lord Nii Boye Tagoe, has announced. He said the two new camps would be located...
