General News of Thursday, 25 October 2018Source: Graphic.com.ghAddress criminal justice system shortcomings - Kofi AbotsiMr Ernest Kofi Abotsi is a Legal practitionerThe immediate past Dean of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) Law School, Mr Ernest Kofi Abotsi, has stressed the need for the judiciary to focus on tackling challenges associated with the criminal justice system in order to sustain the Justice for All programme. InterviewIn an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra last Monday, Mr Abotsi described the Justice for All Programme as a major intervention by the judiciary and its ancillary organisations in the administration of justice in the country. Ten years after its implementation, Mr Abotsi said the next phase must go beyond the present mode of practice. Citing the Kumasi Central Prisons as one of the overcrowded prisons, Mr Abotsi said the Justice for All programme was introduced to assist such people who among other things may have been in prison longer than they had been remanded. BackgroundThe Justice for All programme was introduced in 2007 as a means to decongest the country’s prisons .

Source: GhanaWeb October 25, 2018 09:22 UTC