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On Eid Friday , June 6, 2025, Sunyani Central Prison organized it's first-ever cooking and Jama competition for security services in the Bono region. The event aimed to foster unity and camaraderie among security personnel while showcasing their culinary and morale singing skills.Participants included representatives from the Ghana Police...
Femal Officers of the Senior Correctional Center (SCC) on Wednesday, May 28, 2025 celebrated Mothers day and the Mental health month with series of activities.The event highlighted the Importance of mental wellness and appreciation for motherhood within the correction service. The key moment of the celebration was the clinical confession...
Cyber1defense Communication Limited has donated 100 set of computers, 4 projectors, 4 projector screens, 2 printers, 2 smart boards and 10 smart mobile phones worth three hundred thousand Ghana Cedis to the Ghana Prisons Service. Presenting the items at the Prisons Headquarters on Friday, 23rd May, 2025, the Executive Director...
As part of the regional commemoration of the Gender Week Celebration by the Ghana Prisons Service, the Senior Correctional Centre (SCC), in conjunction with the Ghana Health Service organised a symposium on drug abuse for juveniles at SCC. The symposium, themed on drug abuse and its consequences on health, educated...
The Ghana Prisons Service in collaboration with the National Aids Control Programme (NACP) have held the opening ceremony for a 5day training programme for some selected Prisons HIV/TB Focal Persons across the 46 facilities nationwide. The 5days training which was officially opened yesterday, Monday April 28, 2025 is to equip...
The Director General of Prisons, Mrs. Patience Baffoe-Bonnie (Esq.) has been officially inducted into office at a colourful service at the Prisons Interdenominational Church in Accra, on Friday 11th April, 2025. As the 27th head of the Ghana Prison Service and the second female to occupy the enviable seat,...
The 25th Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service, Mr Isaac Kofi Egyir was successfully fulled- out of active service after 29 years of service. The ceremony which was held on Monday, April 7, 2025 began with a church service at the Roman Ridge Pentecost Church followed by a ceremonial parade...
The Minister for the interior, Honorable Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka has donated assorted food items to the Ghana Prisons Service to support inmates feeding for the Ramadan season, at the Prisons Headquarters. The items include one thousand (1000) bags of rice, four hundred and seventeen (417) boxes of sunflower cooking oil, two...
The President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama has sworn in Deputy Director-General of Prisons (DDGP) in charge of Finance and Administration, Mrs. Patience Baffoe-Bonnie (ESQ.) as the Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service. The ceremony took place at the Jubilee House on Monday, 17thMarch, 2025. It was attended by high profile personalities including top officials of the Ghana Prisons Service and...
President John Dramani Mahama has appointed the Deputy Director-General of Prisons in charge of Finance and Administration, Mrs. Patience Baffoe-Bonnie (ESQ.) as the new Director-General of Prisons. The announcement was made on 14th March, 2025. DGP. Baffoe-Bonnie takes over from Mr. Isaac Kofi Egyir who was appointed as Director-General of...
