Prisoner Or Patient? The Fate of Ghana’s Mentally Ill Offender
The Ghana Prisons Service is mandated by law to ensure the safe custody, welfare, reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners whenever ...
Tag: Penology
UK To Build GBP700K Wing On Notorious Nigerian Prison To House Foreign Criminals
The UK is to build a £700,000 jail in Nigeria so it can deport foreign criminals and free up places ...
176 Senior Prisons Officers Promoted
One hundred and seventy-six superior officers of the Ghana Prisons Service across the country have been promoted to their next ...
3 Convicts Attack Another In Nasty Court Brawl As Officer Fires Warning Shot
A 20-year sentence handed to five armed robbers by a Circuit Court in Tema was enough to turn five robbers against ...
Tema Court Shooting Was To Maintain Order – Prisons Service
A shooting incident that occurred at the Tema court on Monday morning was to separate a fight between two convicts, ...
Japan Executes Two Convicted Murderers
Japan executed two convicted murderers on Thursday, the justice ministry said, ignoring calls from international rights groups to end capital ...
Foundation To Hold Charity Concert In Support of Juvenile Offenders
A child oriented nongovernmental organisation, Juvenile Reform Foundation-Ghana (JRF-Ghana) has launched a charity concert to raise funds in support of ...
JRF-Ghana Launches Concert To Support Juvenile Offenders
JUVENILE Reform Foundation (JRF-Ghana) has launched its charity concert to support released juvenile offenders and incarcerated juvenile inmates in the ...
Gov’t Clears Prisons Service To Recruit 1,000 Officers
Government has given approval to the Ghana Prison Service to recruit 1,000 prison officers to enhance its performance so as ...
S. African Prison Guards Face Suspension Over Strip Show
South African prison officials said Monday that they were considering suspending 13 guards after one of the country's high-security jails ...
Prisons Begin Agric Revamp
As part of measures to revamp the agricultural sector of the Ghana Prisons Service to increase food production and to ...
ASP Bukari Wants Kumasi Central Prison Renovated
The outer wall on the right wing of the Kumasi Central Prisons night collapsed damaging a Tata bus, parked close ...
HRW Warns Lebanon Against Bringing Back Death Penalty
Human Rights Watch has urged Lebanon to respect its moratorium on the death penalty after calls for its reinstatement following ...
Thirty-One Prisoners Granted Bail
Thirty-One Prisoners remanded for years at the Winneba Prison and Ankaful Prison Annex in the Central Region, were on Friday ...
Ghana Prisons Now ‘cocaine, Wee, Mobile Phone Market’ – Ex-Convict
Several reports of unlawful practices that exist in prisons across the country have reached the desk of Top FM which ...
Give Us Our Own Ministry
The Ghana Prisons Service is pushing for the creation of a separate ministry to take care of the Service and ...
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, ...
Taiwan Child Killer Escapes Death Penalty
A Taiwanese man who decapitated a three-year-old girl in public on a busy Taipei street escaped the death penalty Friday ...
Police and Villagers Recapture 250 Escaped Prisoners In Indonesia
Indonesian security forces have successfully rounded up most of the 250 inmates who escaped during a mass breakout from an ...
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” ...