Ghana Prisons Service

Its Functions includes advising the President on "matters of policy in relation to the organisation and maintenance of the prisons system in Ghana."

[3] These male prisons are located in Akuse, Kumasi, Sekondi, Tamale, Nsawam, Ho, Sunyani, Navrongo, Wa, Tarkwa, Winneba, and Cape Coast.

The country also has seven major female prisons, located in Akuse, Ho, Nsawam, Sekondi, Sunyani, Kumasi, and Tamale.

[3] Squalid conditions, poor food and overcrowding in Ghana's prisons were called "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment," by the UN in 2013.

The purpose of the school is to train the Ghanaians to meet the administrative and operational needs of the Ghana Prisons Service.

[7] As of 2015, Patrick Darko Missah the then Deputy Controller in charge of Finance and Administration of the Ghana Prisons Service revealed that there were 14, 585 inmates with 11,581 convicts and 3004 on remand.

As part of the restructuring, the Borstal Institute for Juveniles is now called the Senior Correctional Centre.