A review test led by the Auditor General in 2021 has uncovered that warrants of 125 people remanded at the male part of Nsawam Medium Security Prisons had terminated.
This differences No. 171 of the Ghana Police Service Instructions, 2018, which requires lapsed responsibility warrants of short sentence detainees to be supported by station officials and sent to the Director General of Prisons for the warrants to be sent back to the Courts that gave them.
The Auditor General in the report, consequently, suggested a contact between the Director-General of Prisons and the Ghana Police Service to deal with the reestablishment of terminated warrants or speed up activity on such cases for conclusive judgment.
As of June 2021, penitentiaries in Ghana are accounted for to have been stuffed by 3,247 detainees with the approved jail populace being 9,945.
Collaborator Superintendent of Prisons (ASP) Stephen Okai Aboagye, a Senior Officer connected to the legitimate unit of the Ghana Prison Service, expressed congestion in jails of, which lapsed warrants were significant benefactors, had made it hard to change and isolate detainees “in view of hazard evaluation.”
That, he said had prompted pollution of prisoners and high pace of recidivism.
“We have an all out jail populace of 13,192. Furthermore, out of this number, we have a complete convict populace of 11,638 and that addresses 88.22 percent. We have an all out remand populace of 1,554, addressing 11.78 percent,” he said at a Roundtable Discussion coordinated by the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) on the requirement for non-custodial condemning.
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