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September 30, 2025

Ghana: population jubilate as government announces feeding fee increase for incarcerated people

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President John Mahama has approved an increase in daily feeding allowance for incarcerated people from GH₵1.80 to GH₵5.00 The news has sparked excitement online as many noted that Nana Agradaa would also benefit from the increment.

February 24, 2025

Ghana: Terlabi pushes for large-scale prison farming to tackle food shortages in prisons

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Speaking before Parliament’s Appointments Committee on Monday, February 25, 2025, Mr Terlabi described the current feeding arrangement, where incarcerated people receive GH¢1.80 worth of food per day as inadequate.

January 28, 2025

Ghana: GFA takes coaching course to prisons

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The Confederation of Africa Football (CAF) Women Football in partnership with the GFA Foundation is organizing the Licence D Coaching course for women at the Nsawam Female Prison.

January 9, 2025

Ghana: Volta Power Queens support Ho female prison

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The Volta Region branch of the Power Queens of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has urged the public to contribute vigorously to the reform of convicted people by supporting them with their basic needs.

July 10, 2024

Ghana: 34 prisoners sit 2024 BECE

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The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) which is organised every year in Ghana marks the transition from junior high schools to senior high schools and technical institutions. This year, 34 prisoners from the Prisons Service are sitting the BECE.

July 26, 2023

Ghana: parliament votes to abolish death penalty

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Ghana’s parliament has voted to abolish the death penalty, joining a long list of African countries that have done so in recent years.

July 7, 2023

Ghana: CSOs hold talks with Former President Mahama on prison conditions improvement

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The Crime Check Foundation (CCF), along with other civil society groups, including Amnesty International, have met former President John Dramani Mahama to discuss ways of improving conditions in Ghana’s prisons, where overcrowding is a big challenge. Two other civil society organisations (CSOs), th…

October 26, 2021

Ghana : un projet de loi menace de prison les homosexuels

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April 29, 2021

Ghana: Ho prison infirmary upgraded to health centre

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The Ho central prison infirmary has been upgraded to a health centre to properly serve the health needs of inmates and officers of the prison.

July 1, 2019

Ghana: Name and shame in your reports, Amnesty International told

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Mr Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, the executive director of Crime Check Foundation (CCF), has asked Amnesty International to add naming and shaming component to its report on prison conditions. He said this would awaken agencies and individual that have shirked their responsibilities of insuring improved…

May 4, 2019

Ghana: local company donates electrical cables to Kumasi Prison

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A local manufacturer of electrical cables, Tropical Cable and Conductors Limited, has donated assorted electrical cables to the Kumasi Central Prison.

April 16, 2019

Ghana: dans les prisons à ciel ouvert pour "sorcières"

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