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The Communication Unit of the Prisons headquarters has organised a five-day training programme for Signal Operators of the James Camp Prison, Senior Correctional Centre and the Prisons Officers Training School. The Training began on Monday 8th July, to Friday 12th July, 2024, at the Prisons Headquarters in Accra. Participants were taken...
The head pastor of the Perez Chapel International, Tamale branch, Rev. Dr. Joshua Mogre and few Old Achimota Students of the 2001/2002 academic year group have on Friday,19th of July 2024, paid various court fines to set three convicts free from jail at the Tamale Central Prison. Rev. Dr. Mogre,...
The Ghana Football Association Foundation, on Wednesday July 10th 2024, visited the Nsawam Medium Security Prison with the aim of utilizing football to promote the well-being, welfare, reformation, rehabilitation and reintegration. This initiative in its initial phase has already engaged several Prison facilities including Akuse local Prison, Sunyani (both male...
Excerpt from the Pull-Out ceremony in honour of Mr Simon Yao Adzah, Director of Prisons in charge of Services. Excerpt from the Pull-Out ceremony in honour of Mr Simon Yao Adzah, Director of Prisons in charge of Services. Excerpt from the Pull-Out ceremony in honour of Mr Simon Yao ...
The Basic Education Certificate Examination (B.E.C.E.) which is organized every year in Ghana’s Education system, marks the transition from the Junior High Schools to the Senior High School and Technical Institutions in Ghana. This year, a total number of thirty-four (34) prisoners from Prisons Service have sat for B.E.C.E. The...
The Right to Information (RTI) Commission on Friday July 5, 2024, sensitised prison officers on the Right to Information Act 2019 (Act 989) at the Prison Interdenominational Church, Cantonments in Accra. The RTI Act, 2019 is to give constitutional right to access to information held by public institutions, subject to...
Miss Claudia Lumor, the NPP Parliamentary Candidate for Oforikrom Constituency in the just ended constituency primaries in the Ashanti Region, celebrated her birthday with inmates at the Nsawam Female Prison.
Hello period in collaboration with Sports Giving Network have donated a number of sanitary products to the Nsawam Female Prison (NFP) in the Eastern region, to address the menstrual needs of the inmates. The items included sanitary pads, toilet rolls, menstrual cups, toilet soap, liquid soap, hand sanitizer among others. Presenting...
The Ghana Prisons Service in collaboration with the Chosen Hospital and the True Vine Charismatic Church International have successfully performed free surgical operations for a number of 63 inmates from 8 selected prison facilities on Saturday, 8 June, 2024. The surgeries which were conducted at the Nsawam Prison Hospital included...
The Public Relations Unit at the Prisons Headquarters honored an invitation from the Management of the Lashibi Community Senior High School to sensitize the students on Career Guidance as part of the 2024 Students Representative Council (SRC) Week Celebrarion. The team seized the opportunity to educate the teachers and students...
