Effutu CHRAJ appeals to Chief Justice

The Effutu Municipal Director of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Mr Richmond Mensah, has appealed to the Chief Justice to extend the Justice for All Programme to the Winneba Prison to help decongest it.

Mr Mensah told the GNA in an interview that the prison was meant to hold 97 prisoners but had 262 prisoners as at November 10.

He said out of the figure, 172 were convicted prisoners while 90 were remand prisoners, adding that 51 of the remand prisoners had had their warrant expired between one and five years and had not appeared before any court in the last five months.

Mr Mensah said the Officer Commanding the Prison, Chief Superintendent Samuel Adjei-Atta, told a CHRAJ team that visited the prison that official from the prison had complained to judges about the expired warrants but nothing had been done.

“Despite this situation the police continue to dump suspects at the prison without sending them to court,” he said.

Source: GNA