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 ...
Tag: Penology
Consider C’nity Service – Government Urged
Authorities at the Kumasi Central Prisons have renewed calls for non-custodial sentences for persons convicted of minor offences in order ...
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 ...
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, ...
Marwako Assault: Court Remands Lebanese Supervisor
An Accra magistrate court has remanded to police custody the Lebanese Supervisor at the center of the Marwako Restaurant assault ...
Court Remands Marwako Branch Manager
The Abeka District Court Wednesday remanded a Lebanese branch manager of Mawarko Restaurant located at Abelenkpe, Jihad Thaabn, for allegedly assaulting ...
Court Remands Lebanese Supervisor
An Accra magistrate court has remanded to police custody the Lebanese Supervisor at the center of the Marwako Restaurant assault ...
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 the ...
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 penalty should be ...
Packed Thai Prisons Need Urgent Reform
Thai prisons are massively overcrowded with some inmates forced to sleep sideways, a rights group said Tuesday, urging reform in ...
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 ...
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 Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Ahafo Region, ...
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 ...
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 riot ...
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, ...