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...
A member of the Communications Team of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Charles Owusu, at the weekend donated food items and some African wears at the headquarters of the Ghana Prisons Service...
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...
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,...
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...
Latest: The Other Side Of The Story After 59 long years of independence, Ghana still remains in a dilemma of developmental deficiency; a contagious disease our leaders inherited from birth, and a...
Evan Mawarire, Zimbabwean pastor and activist has decried the deplorable conditions in the country’s jails after spending a week on remand at a maximum security facility. Mawarire disclosed in an...
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...
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...
Inmates have seized control of the largest prison in the north-eastern Brazilian city of Natal. Police say at least 10 prisoners have been killed at the Alcacuz jail. Many others are thought to have...
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...
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...
Following the “cruel, inhumane and degrading” experiences in Ghanaian prisons, three human right lawyers are dragging the country’s Attorney-General, Marietta Appiah-Oppong, to the Supreme...
Three lawyers have sued the Attorney-General, Marietta Appiah-Oppong, for what they say are inhumane and degrading conditions at the country detention centres. Martin Kpebu, Francis Ontoyin and Nana...
A Prison officer is pleading for a review of the feeding grant for prison inmates, describing the daily GHC1.80 per head as woefully inadequate. The Second-In-Command at the female section of the...
