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Prioritise non-custodial sentencing

In UpdatesPosted 12 June, 2021

Speakers at a roundtable discussion on sentencing in the country’s  Criminal Justice System have called on judges to prioritise  the option of non-custodial sentencing that exist under the 1992 Constitution...

Tags: detention, Ghana, Petty Offences, prison overcrowding
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Rwanda Should Stop Locking Up the Poor

In UpdatesPosted 4 February, 2021

Reliefweb 21 December 2020 African Court Decision Condemns Practice The African Court on Human and People’s Rights has held that states’ laws enabling the detention of people who, often because...

Tags: begging, detaining children, detention, deviant behaviour, homeless people, poverty, suspected petty criminals, vagrants
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