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Horrors in Ghana
By Joy News
Published: 11/12/2008

GHANA - Government and non Governmental Organizations have been asked to urgently salvage the deplorable and horrific conditions in Ghana’s prisons. A 37-year-old ex-convict who narrated his horrendous experience to Joy News, noted with distress how homosexuality and drug peddling are rife in jails.

Even though prisons are meant to help reform people, Andy Atta Peprah said worse crimes than may have sent convicts there go on, which negatively impact on the lives of inmates and also help to produce more hardened criminals into the society. The reformist, who had served a two-year term at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison for failing to repay a loan he contracted to promote his business, was only released about a week ago. Read more.

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