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Consider C’nity Service – Government Urged

Authorities at the Kumasi Central Prisons have renewed calls for non-custodial sentences for persons convicted of minor...

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The Rock Puts Muscle Behind Boot Camp In HBO Documentary

The appeal of programs that put at-risk youth on a path to redemption is as old as "Scared Straight!," the...

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Feared US Jail For Undocumented Immigrants

In fluorescent uniforms, dozens of inmates blink in the afternoon sun as they line up in the yard for lunch, the low...

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Marwako Assault: Court Remands Lebanese Supervisor

An Accra magistrate court has remanded to police custody the Lebanese Supervisor at the center of the Marwako...

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Court Remands Marwako Branch Manager

The Abeka District Court Wednesday remanded a Lebanese branch manager of Mawarko Restaurant located at Abelenkpe,...

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Court Remands Lebanese Supervisor

An Accra magistrate court has remanded to police custody the Lebanese Supervisor at the center of the Marwako...

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Death Penalty Is A Human Rights Violation – Frank Doyi

The Acting Director of Amnesty International, Mr. Frank Doyi is advocating for the death penalty to be scrapped from...

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Death Penalty Should Be Abolished From Our Statutory Books

The Former Commissioner on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) Justice Emile Short has suggested that death...

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Packed Thai Prisons Need Urgent Reform

Thai prisons are massively overcrowded with some inmates forced to sleep sideways, a rights group said Tuesday, urging...

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Release Male Prisoners To Marry Us – Women Beg Akufo-Addo

Some women living in Assin Fosu in the Central region are pleading for clemency for male prison inmates in the region....

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Asafo FM Donates To Ankaful Prisons

As part of their Valentine’s Day celebration, Asafo FM, a local radio station, operating in Elmina in the...

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Undercover Panorama Report Reveals Prison Chaos

Chaos in one of the biggest prisons in the country has been revealed in secret filming for the BBC. An undercover...

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Thousands Hanged At Saydnaya Prison, Amnesty Says

As many as 13,000 people, most of them civilian opposition supporters, have been executed in secret at a prison in...

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Over 150 Prisoners Escape; 62 Still At Large

Riot policemen do a head count of inmates during an uprising at Alcacuz prison in Natal Brazilian authorities say more...

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Inmate Dies At Nsawam Prisons

Information gathered by Class News indicate that an inmate of the Nsawam Prisons in the Eastern Region died on Sunday...

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Woman Arrested For Attempting To Smuggle Cocaine To Prisoner

A 23-year-old self-employed woman dealing in used ladies shoes from Berekum in the Berekum Municipality of the Brong...

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3rd Brazilian Prison Riot In A Week Leaves 4 Dead

Four people died Sunday in a riot at a prison in Brazil, the nation's third deadly prison uprising in seven days. Three...

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Search For Fugitives After Deadly Jail Riot In Amazonas

Police in northern Brazil are searching for dozens of inmates who escaped from an overcrowded prison complex during a...

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Two New Prison Camps To Be Established At Ejura and Kokofu

Two new prison camps are to be established in the Ashanti region in 2017, the Ashanti Regional Commander of Prisons, Mr...