Ghana’s prisons are bursting at the seams with excessive overcrowding, compromising the health, safety, and rehabilitation of inmates. Some prisons are holding prisoners far and beyond their ...

The Ghana Prisons Service, in partnership with the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) and the Ministry of Youth Development and Empowerment, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the Ministry ...

Ghana’s prison system is in urgent need of reform. The Ghana Prisons Service, in its 2022 report, revealed that the inmate population had surged to 14,097, significantly exceeding the national ...

The Ghana Prisons Service stands at a pivotal moment in its institutional evolution, embracing a new transformative strategic direction that reimagines the role of prison facilities in national ...

The Ghana Prisons Service PRO has addressed the uncertainty surrounding Agradaa's whereabouts after her sentencing Mr Adamu Latif also responded to other rumours of maltreatment against the embattled ...

Accra, March 18, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama on Monday sworn into office Deputy Director General of Prisons (DDGP) ...

The Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, has assured applicants to the Ghana Prison Service of a transparent and fair recruitment process, as he visited the Prisons and Borstal ...

The Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, and Ghana Immigration Service have announced recruitment opportunities for individuals who expressed interest and applied to join these services in ...

At the Medium Security Prisons, Nsawam, a moving ceremony on October 3, 2025 marked a milestone in Ghana's correctional health and rehabilitation story. Two inmates (Mr Agyei and Mr Asare Dankyi), who ...

Mrs. Patience Baffoe-Bonnie, the Director-General of Prisons in charge of Services, has revealed that the government has approved an upward adjustment of GH¢5 per inmate daily, but the funds are yet ...