Tag Archives: prison

Two prison war­dens have been handed over to the police for criminal investigations in connection with the escape of a Chinese inmate, at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, a week ago. This follows their interdiction by the Prisons Administration for the investigation to be carried out. The prisoner, Wang …

A Chinese national serving a one-year jail term for theft at the Nsawam Prison has reportedly escaped while receiving medical care at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, according to a graphiconline.com report. Wang Xiao is reported to have purportedly feigned illness, prompting prison authorities to transport him to the …

  Eric Kojo Duah, who is suspected of shooting General Lance Corporal Mohammed Awal and Lance Corporal Michael Dzamesi to death in August 2019 while traveling from Kasoa to Budumburam in Accra, was sentenced to 20 years in jail as part of a plea deal with the State. After initially …

South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma was returned to prison on Friday to comply with a ruling that his release on ill health was unlawful – but was freed after just an hour under a remission process to address overcrowding in jail. The 81-year-old arrived at the Estcourt correctional detention …

The Minister for Trade and Industry, Kobina Tahir (KT) Hammond, has said that the fate of the Member of Parliament for Assin Central, James Gyakye Quayson, has been determined. According to him, Gyakye Quayson would be going to prison just like the former MP for Bawku Central, Adamu Dramani Sakande, who was imprisoned …

Deputy Attorney General, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, has stated that the Member of Parliament-elect for Assin North, James Gyakye Quayson, is likely to face a prison time of 10 years in the ongoing criminal trial. Tuah-Yeboah, who is the lead prosecutor in the case against Quayson, however, indicated that he is not certain whether …

A Kano State Sharia court has sentenced one Habiba to three months in prison calling her friend, Rukayya Muhammad, a prostitute.   Habiba was arraigned before the court by the police for calling and addressing her friend as “sharmota”, which means prostitute, on her WhatsApp status.   She sent the …

A video of prisoners doing all manner of drugs in a male ward of a prison in Ghana has gone viral. The said video, which has been sighted by GhanaWeb, showed tens of men in a prison yard engaging in different activities. Some men could be seen bathing in the …

A man has been caught trying to smuggle an eight-and-a-half inch pair of scissors into a jail by hiding it in his anus.   The staff at La Porte County Jail in Indiana, USA made the discovery on Wednesday,  May 17 when the man, an arrested suspect, refused to cooperate …

Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi is a name that reverberates in Ghana’s judicial system. The person behind the name is a Supreme Court justice who was sworn in by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a member of Ghana’s apex court. From his poor village of Issa in the Upper West Region, Justice Kulendi beat a …