| Nsawam Medium Security Prison |
P. O. Box 305, Nsawam Ghana |
Convicts - 754 |
Condemned - 260 (Death row) |
Trail - 1 |
Remand - 199 |
Total - 1,214 |
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Nsawam Medium Security Prison is thirty six kilometers north of Accra. It is the responsibility of the Central Government to provide equipment for skills training of the convicts and yet like almost all correctional institutions the Government is not adequately resourced to provide equipment for skills training.
Nsawam medium security prison houses both male and female prisoners. The purpose of skills training programme in the area of sewing, weaving, and photography is to provide convicts with skills to equip them to become lawful citizens. The success of the rehabilitation programme will reduce the percentage of convicts that are rearrested for crimes after they are released from prison.
Most people are driven to crime as a result of poverty which may be attributed to lack of life skills to enable decent living to be earned. The project aims at equipping 500 inmates annually with skills in the area of dressmaking, weaving and photography that will earn them decent livelihoods outside the prison walls and pull them away from crime.
Prison Address
Nsawam Medium Security Prison,
P. O. Box 305,
Nsawam GHANA
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| James Fort Remand Prison |
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Convicts - 2 |
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Remand - 482 |
Total - 484 |
| Tamale Regional Prison |
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Remand - 15 |
Total - 15 |
| Navrongo Regional Prison |
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Convicts - 150 |
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Remand - 147 |
Total - 297 |
PRISONERS IN GHANIAN PRISONS
Prisoners in Nsawam Medium Security Prison [Ghana]
All arrested on the 7th of January 2004 on drug related charges and have been sentenced 20 years for smuggling.
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Age |
Country of Origin |
| John David Logan |
43 |
[Warrington, UK] |
| Frank Lavelrick |
43 |
[Cleethorpes, UK] |
| Alan Hodson |
45 |
[Easington Co Durham, UK] |
| Sven Herb |
45 |
[German] |
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Related News Items on the above foreigners.
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Other prisoners' stories.
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Nana Kwasi Agyeman
also known as Gemann |
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46 as at 01/2006 |
| A musician who is on death row at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison. Gemann murdered Kwesi Adjei, a 35-year-old driver, on January 9, 1995 at Dome near Accra, for which he was sentenced to death. After the sentence, he appealed against the conviction but the Court of Appeal threw it out. In December 1998, he filed another appeal at the Supreme Court seeking mitigation of his sentence.Read More Here |
| Mohammed Ibrahim Kamil |
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[Ghana] |
| Nana Kwasi Agyeman,, 23 March 2005 Gemman appeals https://www.ghanatoday.com/showbiz/index.php?option=news&task=viewarticle&sid=83&Itemid=61 28 April 2005 Gemann Stands Accused https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/audio/article.php?ID=1828
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