Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has said the government of Ghana is restoring dignity in Ghana’s correctional system, emphasizing that every Ghanaian, regardless of circumstance, deserves humane treatment, care, and respect.
Speaking at the Graduation Parade of Prisons Cadet Course Intake 32 at the Prison Officers Training School, Roman Ridge, Accra on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
Professor Opoku-Agyemang commended the new generation of officer cadets for choosing a demanding profession that requires courage, empathy, and endurance.
She said the event underscores the government’s commitment to building a secure, humane, and reformatory correctional system.
She highlighted key reforms, including a long-overdue increase in the daily feeding allowance for inmates from GHC1.80 to GHC5, benefiting over 14,000 prisoners with more nutritious and decent meals.
“An effective and well-resourced correctional system is the backbone of public safety,” she noted, adding that the government’s investments in improved logistics and infrastructure are helping to restore dignity to the prison service.
She also praised President John Dramani Mahama’s recent amnesty for 998 inmates, describing it as a “powerful statement of mercy” and a reminder that justice requires compassion and belief in second chances.
The Vice President stressed that these measures form part of a broader agenda to decongest facilities, enhance humane conditions, and modernize the correctional system.
