Obuasi 8 Inmates Benefit Justice For All Program 2025
The Justice for All Program (JFAP) has held an in-prison court sitting in the Obuasi local Prisons under the supervision of Justice Osei Kuffour, an appeal Court Judge.
The Court heard 8 pre-trial cases, some of them including murder, conspiracy to commit robbery, stealing and others.
The JFAP is to fulfil Article 14(4) of the 1992 constitution, which allows a person who is arrested, restricted or detained and is not tried within a reasonable time to be released under relevant conditions.
The program ensures the reduction or eradication of overcrowding in the prisons, which forces inmates to sleep in very dehumanising positions in their prison cells.
The inception of the JFAP in 2007, under the leadership of Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, had led to significant improvements in prison decongestion.
Speaking to ABN’s Chukwu Joseph Justice Lydia Osei Marfo, an appeals Court Judge in Accra, expressed her worried about how Police has wasted One Isaac Kwaku Asabere’s 6 years life in prisons for not being properly charged.
“From the court proceedings today, I can only admonish Criminal Investigations Departments and investigators to be active in their work and not to leave the vulnerable remand inmates to languish in prison for months and in some cases, years,” Justice Lydia Osei Marfo.
The Obuasi Local Prisons Commander, Chief Superintendent of Prison (CSP) Francis Deku, explained reason why some remand inmates stay in Prisons custody for so long which is called “LOCK AND FORGET”
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