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Some 300 students took part in the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) at the Bethany Methodist Junior High School, one of the centres for the examination in the nation’s capital, Accra. According to one of the supervisors, who spoke to GhanaWeb’s team during a visit to the centre, 162 of …

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 …

The South African Police Service (SAPS) has launched a manhunt for armed men who assisted six Zimbabwean prisoners awaiting trial to escape from custody in Makhado. Local publications reported that on Monday, 13 March 2022, a group of heavily armed suspects attacked police officers along the Vivo road next to …

Ex-convict and actress Rosemond Brown is begging the President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to offer a presidential pardon to some female prisoners in the country’s prisons, especially the aged. The controversial actress who was fond of twerking on social media a few years ago was …

A total of 27 remand prisoners at the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons in the Eastern Region have been granted bail under the Justice for All Programme (JFAP). Three others have also been discharged unconditionally by the court during the virtual court sitting. Also, six other applications were struck out while …

A total of 14 remand prisoners at the Sunyani Central Prisons in the Bono Region have been granted bail under the Justice for All Programme (JFAP). The JFAP was initiated by the Chief Justice in collaboration with the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice with POS Foundation as its facilitators to …

Around the world uncounted numbers of people are detained in public and private hospitals for non-payment of hospital bills, despite the fact that hospital detention is seen as both a human rights violation and inconsistent with efforts towards universal health coverage. Now, let’s narrow this to our own country- Ghana …

The U.S. Department of State’s 2021 Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices has observed that lengthy pretrial detention has become a serious problem in the country. According to the report, 12 percent of 1, 595 prisoners in September were in pretrial status. It highlighted that, “the government kept prisoners …

A former Director-General of the Ghana Prisons Service, Dr. Richard Kuuire, has described the GHS1.80 feeding grant for prisoners per day as woefully inadequate. According to him, the money given to provide three square meals a day for each prisoner reflects the poor treatment prisoners are subjected to in the …

Ghanaian musician, Shatta Wale, has finally been taken to the Ankaful Prison after he was denied bail. Shatta Wale was taken to Ankaful on Thursday night, and he is expected to spend a week thereafter he was remanded in police custody. The court, according to the report, arrived at that …