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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has organized a four-day ‘Training of Trainers’ workshop for some selected officers of the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS). It is part of a three-year structured support scheme aimed at strengthening the compliance of the Ghana Prisons with the Nelson Mandela...
The Prisons Women basketball team ( Reformers) yesterday, Wednesday the 29th of March, 2023 beat their long time league rivals the Police Women's team at the Prisons basketball court in Cantonments. The game started with the exhibition of strength, run and dribbles from both sides before the Reformers Women outplayed...
The Head of State Awards Scheme - Ghana has yesterday the 23rd of March,2023 launched the project "Breaking the Cycle of Crime" at the Senior Correctional Centre in Accra. The project which will be implemented with the collaboration of the Ghana Prisons Service and the Australian High Commission, will help...
A one day training workshop on resilience has been organized for prison officers within the Greater Accra regional Command. The workshop which was organized by the spearhead consent was to empower officers to perform at the optimum level of their duties. The Resource person for the training, Mr. Patrick Otieku-Boadu stated...
The Ghana Prisons Service has today,the 21st of March,2023 presented a cheque donation of five thousand cedis (¢5000) to the Ghana Heart Foundation.The donation is an annual activity by the Prisons Service to financially support patients who require heart surgeries at the Cardiothoracic Centre at the Korle- Bu Teaching....
Officers and inmates of the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons (NMSP), yesterday Thursday 16th March, 2023, organized a special football match in honour of the late Christian Atsu Twasam, who was popularly known in football circles as Christian Atsu, a Ghanaian professional footballer. The event took place at the NMSP in...
The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has conferred National Awards on some individuals and institutions who distinguished themselves in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), Technical Team and Advisors. About 50 individuals and entities received the Order of...
The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has called on Ghanaians to remain united and work together to remove all barriers to national development and also not to take the freedom enjoyed under the 1992 constitution lightly because it came as a result of the...
The Chaplaincy Unit of the Ghana Prisons Service has held a three-day annual conference at the Anglican Retreat Center in Ashale Botwe, Accra.The conference which began from the 1st to the 3rd of March, 2023 welcomed 18 service chaplains, 3 service Imams and 44 chaplaincy assistants drawn from the...
A wreath laying ceremony has been held today, the 28th February,2023 at the Freedom Monument in Osu to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Crossroad Shooting Incident on the 28th February, 1948. The 28th February Christiansborg Crossroads Shooting Incident is celebrated every year to honor the defenseless Ex-servicemen who in...
