{"id":91768,"date":"2023-08-14T21:38:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/14\/prison-is-my-second-home\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:38:31","slug":"prison-is-my-second-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/14\/prison-is-my-second-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison is my second home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_30\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h2><strong>Prisons are institutions for lawbreakers, but Shatta Wale considers them his home.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>In October 2021, the Ghanaian dancehall musician was detained by authorities after being accused of spreading untrue information.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In a recent interview with TV3, Shatta Wale discussed his time spent in jail, saying that he didn\u2019t feel particularly humbled by the experience because he felt at home there.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-901\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><span class=\"ezoic-ad ezoic-at-0 box-3 box-3901 adtester-container adtester-container-901\" data-ez-name=\"ghbase_com-box-3\"><span id=\"div-gpt-ad-ghbase_com-box-3-0\" ezaw=\"728\" ezah=\"90\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:0;display:inline-block;padding:0;min-height:90px;min-width:728px\" class=\"ezoic-ad\"\/><\/span><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-114\" data-inserter-version=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian musician claimed that some inmates were glad to see him incarcerated. The ex-convict continues by saying that while he was incarcerated at the Ankaful.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-909\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><span class=\"ezoic-ad ezoic-at-0 medrectangle-3 medrectangle-3909 adtester-container adtester-container-909\" data-ez-name=\"ghbase_com-medrectangle-3\"><span id=\"div-gpt-ad-ghbase_com-medrectangle-3-0\" ezaw=\"580\" ezah=\"400\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:0;display:inline-block;padding:0;min-height:400px;min-width:580px\" class=\"ezoic-ad\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Medium Prison in the Central Region, he was even given respect and decency.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-910\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><span class=\"ezoic-ad ezoic-at-0 medrectangle-4 medrectangle-4910 adtester-container adtester-container-910\" data-ez-name=\"ghbase_com-medrectangle-4\"><span id=\"div-gpt-ad-ghbase_com-medrectangle-4-0\" ezaw=\"728\" ezah=\"90\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:0;display:inline-block;padding:0;width:100%;max-width:1200px;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;min-height:90px;min-width:728px\" class=\"ezoic-ad\"\/><\/span><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-122\" data-inserter-version=\"2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>You see, here in Ghana, we do not sacrifice to help the country. It didn\u2019t really humble me because when I went to jail, I was actually feeling like I was at home,<\/em>\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-911\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><span class=\"ezoic-ad ezoic-at-0 box-4 box-4911 adtester-container adtester-container-911\" data-ez-name=\"ghbase_com-box-4\"><span id=\"div-gpt-ad-ghbase_com-box-4-0\" ezaw=\"580\" ezah=\"400\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:0;display:inline-block;padding:0;width:100%;max-width:1200px;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;min-height:400px;min-width:580px\" class=\"ezoic-ad\"\/><\/span><span class=\"ezoic-autoinsert-video ezoic-under_second_paragraph\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>There were quite a number of people there, some for over 30 years, that wanted to see Shatta Wale. Some fetch water for me and others give me their food. The way I was treated on the streets, is the same treatment I got in the cells<\/em>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI<em>t wasn\u2019t like they sent me to a place to suffer; when I went there, it was like a vacation. Nobody goes to jail and comes back with the right frame of mind but I came back and released \u2018On God\u2019, \u2018JJC\u2019 and a whole lot<\/em>\u201d. Shatta Wale disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-912\" data-method=\"placement-service\"\/><span class=\"ezoic-ad ezoic-at-0 banner-1 banner-1912 adtester-container adtester-container-912\" data-ez-name=\"ghbase_com-banner-1\"><span id=\"div-gpt-ad-ghbase_com-banner-1-0\" ezaw=\"336\" ezah=\"280\" style=\"position:relative;z-index:0;display:inline-block;padding:0;width:100%;max-width:1200px;margin-left:auto!important;margin-right:auto!important;min-height:280px;min-width:336px\" class=\"ezoic-ad\"\/><\/span><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-123\" data-inserter-version=\"2\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prisons are institutions for lawbreakers, but Shatta Wale considers them his home. In October 2021, the Ghanaian dancehall musician was detained by authorities after being accused of spreading untrue information. In a recent interview with TV3, Shatta Wale discussed his time spent in jail, saying that he didn\u2019t feel particularly humbled by the experience because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prison is my second home - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/08\/14\/prison-is-my-second-home\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Prison is my second home - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prisons are institutions for lawbreakers, but Shatta Wale considers them his home. 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