Ghana: pre-trial prison population 2001-2024

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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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