General News of Thursday, 13 February 2020Source: GNAWe are working to reduce congestion in prisons - CHRAJFile photoMr Sidik Ubeidu, the Upper West Regional Director of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has indicated that the Commission is working hard to help reduce congestion at the Wa Central Prison and police cells. He said as part of the effort, CHRAJ held discussions with the Supervising High Court Judge in Wa in 2019 in ways of decongesting the remand centres. Mr Ubeidu who revealed this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Wa, said the Commission was working to ensure that the rights of every person was guaranteed. He said the commission also carried out public education on human rights abuse, administrative justice and anti-corruption at the institutional and community levels as well as through the media. Meanwhile, information from the Wa Central Prison indicated that the facility that was supposed to contain 100 inmates was currently housing 179 of them.

Source: GhanaWeb February 12, 2020 16:30 UTC