President John Dramani Mahama has announced a major expansion of the Ghana Prisons Service’s role in national development, revealing plans to support the Service to undertake large-scale farming, poultry, and vegetable production as part of a wider prison reform programme. Speaking at the commissioning of the Damongo Prison Camp on Wednesday, October 5, President Mahama […]
The Ghana Prisons Service has reiterated its resolve in recapturing a Chinese convict who escaped custody after ditching two officers. According to a CCTV footage, the prison officers allegedly accompanied the Chinese prisoner to meet his wife at a hotel in Korle-Gonno, a suburb of Accra. The convict and his partner then fled through the […]
A prison inmate, said to be a Chinese national has escaped while receiving medical care at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. The inmate, Wang Xiao, was at the Nsawam Prison and was serving a one-year jail term for stealing. He is said to have reported sick and needed dental care outside the prison […]
The Attorney-General (A-G) and Minister of Justice, Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, will soon lay before Parliament two bills that will provide alternative sentencing other than imprisonment for accused persons and convicts. The two bills are the Plea Bargaining Bill and the Alternative Sentencing Bill. Plea bargaining is where an accused person makes some concessions, either […]
It has emerged that a corrupt policeman deliberately altered the age of a teenager and succeeded in getting him jailed for allegedly stealing. The victim, Adom who says he will be 15 years old in October, said he was framed up after his nephew stole, and that he was sentenced to a 2 year jail […]
Water shortage has hit the Koforidua Prison at Effiduase in the Eastern Region, leaving the inmates unable to bath and wash their clothes regularly. The situation has led to skin irritation and infections among the 800 inmates. The prison was originally built to accommodate 400 inmates. Due to the heat and the overcrowded nature of […]
