Tag Archives: PRISONER

Ejisu: Prisoner escapes, policewoman given 10 days to produce him

The Ejisu District Police Command of the Ghana Police Service has given a female police officer at the Kwaso Police Station, Corporal Ernestina Oteng Agyeman, ten days to produce a prisoner, Kofi Toku, who escaped while under her care at the Kwaso Police Station on July 20, 2023. According to …

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Caged, neglected, plight of the Ghanaian prisoner

Everybody is a potential prisoner yet almost everyone enjoying freedom loses cognizance of the fact that we must rise up together and demand prisoners in this country be treated like human beings. Several reports have pointed to the fact that prisoners are treated inhumanely in our part of the world …

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‘How my erroneous conviction propelled my love for prisoners’ – Ghanaian Swiss citizen shares story

“I was in detention for three months but after four weeks, they took me to prison because I was like, I can’t,” Miss Hegglin said. A Ghanaian Swiss citizen has shared how her experience in a Switzerland cell made her develop special affection for inmates. Cynthia Hegglin, a mother of …

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Shock as ‘female prisoner’ is discovered to be actually male

There was chaos and drama at Shurugwi Female Prison last week after a supposedly female prisoner was discovered to be a male. According to the Masvingo Mirror, at the time of his arrest 22-year-old Praise Mpofu was dressed as a woman. Mpofu is alleged to have been in the business …

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Zuma ready to be a ‘prisoner of court’ after ignoring order to file affidavit

Jacob Zuma.Picture: SUPPLIED Former president Jacob Zuma on Wednesday missed the Constitutional Court’s deadline to argue in mitigation of sentence, a move that could see him being sent to jail for contempt of court. Chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng last week directed Zuma to file papers on what his sentence should …

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70-yr-old released prisoner runs back to prison for help [watch]

A former inmate of the Awutu Camp Prison, has returned to the prison camp a few weeks after his release. The former prisoner aged 70 and identified as Charles Boamah Domfeh cited hardship outside the prison walls as the reason for his return to the Awutu Camp Prison. “Life has …

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