{"id":175937,"date":"2024-04-27T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/27\/kumasi-central-prison-population-hits-1800-triple-its-capacity\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T09:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:15:39","slug":"kumasi-central-prison-population-hits-1800-triple-its-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/04\/27\/kumasi-central-prison-population-hits-1800-triple-its-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi Central Prison population hits 1800, triple its capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The population of the Kumasi Central Prison is nearly 1800, far exceeding the facility\u2019s capacity of 600 spaces for inmates, as of Friday, April 26, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>This situation is not different from other prisons across the country. Judges, legal practitioners, prison authorities, and various stakeholders have expressed concern about the rate of overcrowding, which results in the violation of the rights of both incarcerated and remanded prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in 2008, Ghana took a significant step by introducing the Justice for All Program to adjudicate cases of remand prisoners, establishing mobile in-prison courts that offer free legal services for such inmates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1042225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/prison-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"478\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>While this initiative has reduced the remand prisoner population, it remains insufficient for ensuring adequate justice delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sir Dennis Dominic Adjei, a court of appeal judge who is also a judge of the African Court on Human and Peoples\u2019 Rights, highlighted the limited number of lawyers and their inability to keep up with the growing number of prisoners.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1042226\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1042226\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1042226\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/prison-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"506\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1042226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Justice Dennis Dominic Adjei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He emphasized the need for paralegal services to assist lawyers in justice delivery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a must that any person who is charged by a court must be represented by a lawyer, the African court has given several decisions against some countries such as Benin, Cote D\u2019Ivoire, and Rwanda, the argument they put up is that we don\u2019t have enough lawyers to meet the demands of accused persons. We must establish paralegal services in the country to support them. Some people languish in jail because they don\u2019t have lawyers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These remarks were made during a workshop for justice sector actors on access to legal aid and the commissioning of a paralegal office organised by the POS Foundation under the sponsorship of GIZ in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1042225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/prison-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"478\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The POS Foundation is a leading human rights civil society in Ghana. It has over the years partnered with the Ghana Prisons Service to successfully pilot the in-person paralegal program at Nsawam Medium Security Prison in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u2014\u2013<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Explore the world of impactful news with CitiNewsroom on WhatsApp!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Click on the link to join the Citi Newsroom channel for curated, meaningful stories tailored just for YOU: https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaCYzPRAYlUPudDDe53x<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>No spams, just the stories that truly matter! #StayInformed #CitiNewsroom #CNRDigital<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The population of the Kumasi Central Prison is nearly 1800, far exceeding the facility\u2019s capacity of 600 spaces for inmates, as of Friday, April 26, 2024. This situation is not different from other prisons across the country. 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