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Mobile phones help prisoners to commit crimes

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  • Obed Adore 11 years ago

    "officer integrity and professionalism", you are right Mr. Attafuah. Ghanaians are just too corrupt! Besides the suggested blocking of phone network signals from the prisons (prisoner areas), on the interim, protocols must be ...
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  • OMANBA 11 years ago

    This has nothing to do with the corruption of officers because they are ghanaians.The smuggling of mobile phones into prisons is the commonest crime in British prisons and some of the smuggling are done by officers.British pr ...
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  • Kofi 11 years ago

    armed robbery is a social pest and must be disinfected asap

  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    In the long term, he said, the prisons administration “is contemplating adopting a technology that will even make the use of mobile phones…in the prisons not possible”.


    why do inmates have access to cellphones? TAK ...
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  • GHFUO, BE SERIOUS NOT PRIDEFUL! 11 years ago

    He said that regrettably, the smuggling is sometimes done by the officers themselves.

  • COS 90 11 years ago

    How can prisoners go to prison rooms with mobile fons? In Ghana once you are in prison, you are obnly entitle to food only not mobile fons.

  • kwaku 11 years ago

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  • KWABENA OHEMENG,LONDON. 11 years ago

    Smuggling of banned items into prisons is a problem with prisons all over the world and can never be compltely stopped.As Mr Attafuah said sometimes prison officers are involved in smuggling banned items,especially mobile pho ...
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  • ashie german 11 years ago

    adopting a technology is not the panacea to production paradox. the next moment a new device may show up again which will make the technology they are planning to get not able to address the issue.matters of ict can only be m ...
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  • ashie german 11 years ago

    this is a serious allegation from the police. they(police) sometimes give phones to suspects to make calls. equally the police officers can help a suspect to smuggling a phone into the police cell and use it to give informati ...
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  • akosua 11 years ago

    These phones are given to the prisoners by the corrupt officers themselves.shame on then all