Prison Rights Would Be Improved –
The Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood says “she will use her ‘legitimate powers’ after retirement to improve on prison rights in the country.” “I will continue to advocate the...
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Prison Rights Would Be Improved
The Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood says “she will use her ‘legitimate powers’ after retirement to improve on prison rights in the country.” “I will continue to advocate the...
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 Prison, Rev. Canon Paa Kwesi Ansah, has revealed. The situation, which he said...
Honduras Foils Jail Escape By Murderer Dressed As A Woman
Prison officials in Honduras have told a convicted murderer who attempted to break out of jail disguised as a woman that he faces severe punishment. Francisco Herrera Argueta, 55, clad himself in a...
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 Programme” (JFAP), an initiative meant to decongest the country’s prisons. One of...
TUC Calls On Government To Improve On Conditions of Prisons
The deteriorating conditions in the country’s prisons have been brought to the attention of government in the wake of revelations by prisons authorities that inmates reject food rationed them and...
‘Prison Inmates Live By Miracle’
Inmates at the Kumasi Central Prisons have been living by miracle, Ashanti Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Prisons Service (ASP), Richard Bukari, has said. Describing their conditions...
Kumasi ‘Prison Inmates Live By Miracle’
ASP Bukari noted that the conditions at the prisons were not what something good could be said about Inmates at the Kumasi Central Prisons have been living by miracle, Ashanti Regional Public...
Prison Service Debunks Recruitment Exercise
The Ghana Prisons Service has cautioned the general public against a scam regarding an ongoing recruitment exercise. A statement issued by the service asked the general public to be vigilant to avoid...
We’re Not Recruiting Personnel Now – Prisons Service
The Ghana Prisons Service has called on the public to disregard rumours of an ongoing recruitment exercise by the Service. It said the public must be vigilant to avoid being lured into buying fake...
False Ghana Prisons Service Recruitment
Prisons Administration states it would be advertised in the media when recruitment starts The Prisons Administration wishes to inform the general public that there is no Ghana Prisons Service...
False Ghana Prisons Service Recruitment
The Prisons Administration wishes to inform the general public that there is no Ghana Prisons Service recruitment exercise currently going on. Therefore, the public is advised to disregard rumours...
We Are Not Recruiting Now
Prison Service urges public to report individuals who claimed to be recruiting Prison Officers There is no recruitment exercise currently going on and the public should take note and avoid being...
President Appoints Patrick Darko Missah *As Ag Director-General Of Prisons
The President, H. E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, pursuant to Article 207 (1) of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, has appointed Mr. Patrick Darko Missah as the Acting Director-General...
Six Prisoners Freed
Six prisoners who were being held on remand at the Sekondi Prison for various offences were freed last Friday by the special court that sat at the prison under the ‘Justice for All Project.’ The...
Six Discharged, Two Convicted At Sekondi Under Justice For All Programme
Six persons who were being held on remand at the Sekondi Prison for various offences have been discharged under the Justice For All programme that seeks to decongest the country’s prisons. At a...
Six Discharged, Two Convicted At Sekondi Under Justice For All Prog.
Six persons who were being held on remand at the Sekondi Prison for various offences have been discharged under the Justice For All programme that seeks to decongest the country’s prisons. At a...
Demonstration Hits Ankaful Prison
INMATES at Ankaful Prison in Cape Coast, the Central regional capital, have embarked on a demonstration against prison authorities over the poor quality of foods they are served. According to the...
S.Korea’s Park Goes Behind Bars
Daughter of a dictator and later head of state herself, South Korea's Park Geun-Hye has spent nearly two decades living in Seoul's sprawling presidential palace. Now she will be locked in a cell,...
Ankaful Prison Inmates Demonstrate Over Poor Food
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...