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 ...
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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 ...
Prisons Officers On Leave Called Back Against Possible Jailbreaks
Management of the Ghana Prisons Service has said officers at various prisons across the country are on high alert to ...
16 Remand Prisoners Freed, 45 Others Granted Bail
Sixteen (16) remand prisoners at the Kumasi Central Prisons have been freed and 45 others granted bail under the Justice ...
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, ...
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 ...
Appeals Grow To Pardon Mentally Ill US Killer
Two top UN rights officials added their voices Wednesday to a growing chorus of appeals to Virginia's governor to spare ...
‘Strippers’ Visit S Africa Prisoners
Inmates at a South African prison known as Sun City were treated to “strippers” as part of an official event. ...
South Africa Prisoners Entertained By ‘strippers’
Inmates at a South African prison known as Sun City were treated to “strippers” as part of an official event. ...
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 ...
‘We Were Treated Like Criminals; Fed Dog and Pig Food’ – Ghanaian Deportees Claim
Some of 63 Ghanaians who were deported to Ghana are claiming they were treated like criminals upon their arrest in ...
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 ...
‘Disgraced’ Breast Surgeon Ian Paterson Jailed For 15 Years
Breast surgeon Ian Paterson has been jailed for 15 years after carrying out unnecessary cancer operations. Paterson, 59, was convicted ...
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 ...
Prison Rights Would Be Improved – Chief Justice
The Chief Justice, Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood says “she will use her ‘legitimate powers’ after retirement to improve on prison ...
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 ...