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A one-day seminar has been held for officers of Koforidua Local Prison. The seminar, which was at the instance of the Officer-in-Charge (OIC), Assistant Director Prisons (ADP) Christopher Hayibor was held at the Koforidua Prison on Friday July 8, 2022 after the usual Padre’s Hour. Introducing the facilitator, the coordinator...
Prison officers and some other professionals engaged pupils of Kwabenya Atomic Basic 5 Junior High School on career guidance at the school premises on Friday 10th June, 2022. The pupils of the School displayed various professional uniforms to mark their 'Career Day' celebration and also expressed their desire to become...
The African Correctional Services Association (ACSA) has held its Executive and the 6th biannual conference planning committee meetings in Accra, Ghana. The 5-day meetings which started on Monday, 13th June, 2022 with a-3-day session by the planning committee and continued with the executive committee meeting from Wednesday, 25th June 2022,...
The Chief Director of the Ministry of the Interior, Mrs. Adelaide Anno-Kumi has advised Prisons Officers to maintain the highest standard of respect and professional conduct at all times, and also to be mindful of the nature of their work as it involves taking care of offenders who have...
The Director-General of Prisons, Mr. Isaac Kofi Egyir, has urged prison officers to strive to make agriculture the panacea to the Service’s financial challenges. Mr. Egyir made the call last Tuesday, when he paid a working visit to prisons farms as part of his tour of prisons establishments in the...
The founder of Sompahemaa Foundation, Mrs. Irene Mensah-Bonsu (Wife of Majority Leader, Kyei Mensa-Bonsu), has called for expansion and improvement of housing structures for prison inmates as well as reorientation and training of prison officers to ensure effective reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners. Mrs. Mensah-Bonsu made the call last Sunday,...
The Ghana Prisons Service on Friday, 29th April, 2022 successfully held a Passing Out Ceremony for 470 recruit officers. The recruits of course 118 underwent 5 months para military training including classroom tuition, physical training and drill. Prior to their final part of the training at the training school,...
The Director-General of Prisons (DGP), Mr. Isaac Kofi Egyir, has urged prison officers to be neutral and professional in the discharge of their duties. Mr. Egyir made the call last week during durbars with officers at Bawku, Navrongo and Tamale Central Prisons as part of his 2-day working visit to...
The Ghana Prisons Service has been commended for its best practices and operations in ensuring safe custody, welfare, reformation and rehabilitation of inmates in the country’s prisons. Brigadier- General Morgan S. Sitwala (Rtd.) made this assertion when he led an 11-member parliamentary delegation of the Committee on National Security and...
The Director-General of Prisons (DGP), Mr. Isaac Kofi Egyir, accompanied by the Director of Prisons(DOP) Mrs. Patience Baffoe-Bonnie, yesterday paid a courtesy call on the Upper East Regional Minister, Hon. Stephen Yakubu, at his residency in the regional capital, Bolgatanga. According to Mr. Isaac Egyir, the visit which forms part...
