The Ghana Prisons Service is mandated by law to ensure the safe custody, welfare, reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners whenever practicable. Prisons are a reflection of society as there are all manner of persons incarcerated – lawyers, doctors, businessmen, police officers, politicians, religious leaders etc. Prisoners, like all men, suffer from ill health. It is … Read more
A US judge granted limited relaxations Thursday to the stringent custody conditions of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and allowed him to write to his beauty queen wife. The 60-year-old, accused of running one of the world’s biggest drug empires and who escaped twice from prison in Mexico, has been held in solitary … Read more
A Royal Marine convicted of killing a wounded Taliban fighter in Afghanistan has been jailed for seven years. Sgt Alexander Blackman, 42, will be freed in weeks as he has already served more than three years in jail. The sentencing came after an appeal court ruled that Blackman’s original murder conviction should be reduced to … Read more
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 horrible!” the voice cries out, before another quickly follows: “We aren’t criminals!” The two inmates are among 524 undocumented immigrants … Read more