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The James Camp Prison near Accra, and Ankaful near Cape Coast, are both Open Camp Prisons. [3] Ghana's prisons house between 11,000 and 14,000 inmates, with females forming approximately 2% of the prison population. [3] Prisons in Ghana are classified based on their level of security, and on the activities undertaken at the various establishments:
On January 25 2017, GhanaWeb referred to a contract signed between Ghana, and the US, where Ghana agreed the men would stay in Ghana for at least two years after their transfer. [5] On June 22 2017, the Supreme Court of Ghana ruled that the agreement signed by the President of Ghana was in violation of Article 75 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.
A Ghanaian legislator has asked parliament to replace jail terms for gay sex with non-custodial sentences including counselling, saying the anti-LGBT bill currently making its way through the ...
Patrick Missah has headed several medium to high security prisons in Ghana including James Camp Prisons in Accra and Sekondi Central Prisons. He was the Western Regional Commander of the Ghana Prisons Service before being made a Deputy Director of Prisons in charge operations. [ 3 ]
The almost 400 years old James Fort Prison in Accra was in use as a prison until 2008. It was originally built for 200 slaves, but housed over 740 male and female prisoners. [12] Squalid conditions, poor food, and overcrowding in Ghana's prisons were called "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment," by the UN in 2013. [13]
The Borstal Institute for juveniles now called The Senior Correctional Centre [1] is a juvenile correction institute under the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS). The centre is a correction centre for people who are under 18 years old and have been convicted of criminal or civil offenses.
As a legal practitioner he has held many positions in Ghana and around the world. He was appointed the Executive Secretary of Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission from 2002 to 2004. [5] In 2008 he published the book Fighting Armed Robbery in Ghana. He has actively advocated for the well-being of prisoners in Ghana and promoted activities ...
Emmanuel Adzator was enlisted into the Ghana Prisons Service in April 1989. Whiles at the service he had several training in the corrections system including Correctional Reforms, Re-Entry and Reintegration at Joyfields Training Institute in Las Vegas, Nevada and Advanced Prisons Management, from the Galilee Management Institute, Israel.