Ghana: pre-trial prison population 2001-2024

As of February 2024, 1,666 people in Ghanaian prisons were remanded in custody. In 2005, an estimated 3,600 prisoners awaited trial while serving in prisons in Ghana. The country had a total average of 186 female prisoners as of February 2024.

Number of prisoners awaiting trial in Ghana from 2001 to 2024

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February 2024

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Region

Ghana

Survey time period

2001 to 2024

Supplementary notes

* Data as of September, 2021.
** As of December 22, 2023.
*** As of February 14, 2024.

The release date is the date the data was accessed.

The source adds the following information:
"The table below gives an indication of the recent trend in the pre-trial/remand prison population. The final row shows the latest figures available. It consists of the number of pre-trial/remand prisoners in the prison population on a single date in the year (or the annual average) and the percentage of the total prison population that pre-trial/remand prisoners constituted on that day."

Figures for 2001 and 2010 are approximate figures.

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