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The Ghana Prisons Service, Western Region, has freed a total of thirty-one prisoners. The inmates, who are all males, were freed from all the seven prison centers in the region.
Fifteen from the Sekondi Central prisons, four from the Ekwasi camp prison, three from Tarkwa and nine from the Hiawa Camp Prison.
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The process was activated following the president’s special pardon to some eight hundred and eight prisoners in the country on Thursday March 26, 2020.
Western Region Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Prisons Service, Nii Adjetey Cyriano commended the President for the decision to grant amnesty to prisoners.
He however indicated that the number of prisoners freed in the Western Region, even though commendable, has low impact on the congested nature of the prisons.
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Asked why none of the released prisoners was a female, Mr. Adjetey Cyriano indicated that “we sent names of a total of 16 female prisoners, however all the 16 had completed their jail term before the amnesty was granted so no female prisoner benefited from the Presidential pardon. But most of them will be considered in the names presented for the next amnesty.”
– WRReporters
