125 persons remanded at Nsawam prisons with expired warrants — Auditor-General s Report modernghana.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from modernghana.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
An audit sample conducted by the Auditor General in 2021 has revealed that warrants of 125 persons remanded at the male section of Nsawam Medium Security Prisons had expired. This contrasts No. 171 of the Ghana Police Service Instructions, 2018, which requires expired commitment warrants of short sentence prisoners to…
Parliament Urged To Pass Community Service Bill peacefmonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from peacefmonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Community Service Bill will help decongest the prisons and make them more effective Stakeholders at a roundtable on the need for Ghana to consider non-custodial sentences in cases of misdemeanour, have called on Parliament to pass the Community Service Bill (non-custodial law) to help decongest the prisons and make them more effective.
They also appealed to the Ministry of the Interior to exert pressure on Parliament for the passage.
Referring to the Ghanaian Judicial System, they said it was empowered with custodial sentences: probation, parole and restricted non-custodial sentence such as fine, thus the need for the law to be passed.