Ghana Prisons Service Establishment

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  PRISONS HEADQUARTERS

  It is sited on 4.147 acre land. It shares wall with the female prison on the West, the workshop block and quarters block C on the east. The categories of prisoners are Convicts Prisoners, Remand Prisoners, Trial Prisoners and Lodgers

  SENIOR CORRECTIONAL CENTRE

  This is the only institution in the country at the moment that caters for young offenders and juveniles. The centre takes care of these young offenders by training them for a period between six/6 month and two/ 2 years in various vocational trades like Welding, Vulcanizing, Tailoring, Carpentry, Draftsmanship, Auto electrical and mechanical and General Electricals. They are also given tuition in the classroom, ICT and Moral education.

  PRISONS OFFICERS’ TRAINING SCHOOL

  The Prison Officers Training School (POTS) was established in September 1947 It was then known as Warders Training Depot. Prior to that, it was the training ground of the Signal Regiment of the Royal West African Frontier Force. On 1st January 1964, when the Prisons department became autonomous and was renamed Ghana Prisons Service, the Warders Training Deport which was headed by the Training Officer also had its name changed to the Prisons Officers Training School. The designation of the head of this Institution remained unchanged until 1974 when it became “Commandant”.

  MAXIMUM PRISON

  The Maximum Security is a highly fortitied prison facility designed to hold the most aggressive and incorrigible inmates.
  The facility meets international maximum-security specifications and standards. Having an authorized capacity of two thousand prisoners, the facility has a modern health centre, a multipurpose court, a football park, inmates’ dormitories, and an administrative block. The rest being a kitchen, a corn mill house, admission and discharge block visitors’ lounge, a gate lodge, a standby generator and a bio gas plant among others.
  There is strict control and monitoring of inmates’ movement. Staff inmate interraction is very minimal in this facility with a 24-hour surveillance of inmates and the entire facility.

  MEDIUM PRISON

  This facility comes close to the Maximum Security facility but with less emphasis on internal fortification. Until the provision of a maximum prison facility in 2011, the Medium Security facility was used to hold high sentence and aggressive prisoners. Currently there is only one such facility in the country which is located at Nsawam in the Eastern Region of Ghana. The Nsawam Medium Security Prison is established on a one (1) mile square plot of land located at the outskirts of the Nsawam Township.

  CENTRAL PRISONS

  The Central Prisons are facilities also known as Minimum Security Facility. There are seven of such facilities in the country which are mainly located in the administrative capitals of the regions With the exception of Central, Greater Accra, and Eastern regions. due to limited facilities, these prisons facilities performs same functions as the Medium Security. Thus, they hold high sentence prisoners. Currently the central prisons facilities in the the country are as follows:

  • Kumasi Central
  • Ho Central Prisons
  • Sekondi Central Prisons
  • Tamale Central Prisons
  • Wa Central Prisons
  • Navrongo Central Prisons
  • Sunyani Central Prisons

LOCAL PRISON