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AVOID EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES-DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF PRISONS

The Director-General of Prisons, Mr. Isaac Kofi Egyir has advised candidates sitting for this year’s Basic Education Certificate Examinations (BECE) to desist from any act that will amount to examination malpractice. Mr. Egyir gave the advice Tuesday morning when he visited the Bethany Methodist Junior High School examination centre where...

PRISON EDUCATION-THE WAY TO GO

“When I closed THE GRAPES OF WRATH, I was a different man. It enriched my powers of thinking and discipline, and my relationships. I left prison more informed than I went in and the more informed you are the less arrogant and aggressive you are.” – Nelson Mandela The above quote by one of the...

EDUCATING GHANA’S IMPRISONED: A PATHWAY TO REMAIN OUT OF JAIL

Imprisonment, in recent times, has moved from the era of human warehousing to that which seeks to correct the offending behaviour of offenders. The shift in focus, undoubtedly, requires from the Ghana Prisons Service newer treatment modules which focus on filling behavioural and intellectual gaps of offenders to empower them for fruitful and law...

RECRUIT COURSE 112 PASS OUT

By: Kwasi Arhin, UPSA intern Honourable Ambrose Dery inspecting parade Four hundred and twenty-three (423) recruit officers of the Ghana Prisons Service have passed out as Second Class Officers to begin their roles as Prisons officers to ensure the safe custody, welfare, reformation and rehabilitation of offenders. The recruit course, which is the...

RECRUIT COURSE 113 PASS OUT

Four hundred and ninety-one (491) recruit officers of the Ghana Prisons Service have passed out as Second Class Officers to begin their roles as Prisons officers to ensure the safe custody, welfare, reformation and rehabilitation of offenders. The recruit course, which is the 113th of the Service, comprised three hundred and twenty six (326) men...

RECRUIT COURSE 114 PASS OUT

Four Hundred and seventy-six (476) recruit officers of the Ghana Prisons Service have passed out at the Prison Officers Training School as Second Class Officers to begin their career as Correction Officers. Addressing the course participants at a brief closing ceremony, the Deputy Director General in charge of Administration and Finance Mrs. Josephine Fredua Agyemang commended...

PRISONS, MILITARY AND ZOOMLION CLEAN ACCRA AMID COVID-19

BY: ASP Samuel kofi Ofori In April, 2020 personnel from the Military, Prisons and Zoomlion Company Limited with support from the Sanitation Ministry and Accra Metropolitan Assembly tackled the filth at some major roads and markets in the capital. The cleanup exercise which lasted for a week was characterized by all COVID-19 safety protocols and was...

PULL OUT CEREMONY IN HONOUR OF DEPUTY-DIRECTOR GENERAL OF PRISONS

The Deputy-Director General in charge of operations, Mr. Sylvester K. Badu Rabbles in accordance with the tradition of the Ghana Prison Service, was memorably pulled out after decades of hard work, dedication and innovativeness to the Prison Service and mother Ghana. The flagship and highly attended ceremony was held at the Prison church, cantonment...

PULL OUT CEREMONY IN OF DIRECTOR OF PRISONS

SPO.250, Director of Prisons, Mr. Leopold Kwame Amoah Ansah was pulled out successfully as per the tradition of the Ghana Prisons Service. The event which was characterized by COVID-19 safety Protocols was held at the Prisons Headquarters in Accra. DOP. Leopold Kwame Ansah was enlisted into the Prisons Service in May, 1985 as a...

COVID-19: Prisons Service leads the way in maintaining clean Ghana

The Prisons Service has intensified its “Clean Ghana Campaign” to clear all major streets and highways within the capital of filth. The exercise which commenced a year ago, received sterling remarks from the general public until it was temporarily put on hold in March 2020 by the Prisons Authority to observe the partial lockdown...