The Chief Justice of Ghana has identified shifting the court to the prisons as one manner through which the government might ensure the prompt dispensation of justice.
This, he claims, is a precaution to ensure that detainees awaiting trial are resolved quickly.
The criminal Justice system is an apparatus the society uses to enforce the standards of conduct necessary to protect individuals and the community‟.
It is the total of society’s activities to defend itself against the actions it describes as criminal.
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It also refers to that integral fusion in the machinery of government that enforces the law and redresses crime.
The machinery is the law enforcement agents which control and prevent crime.
These include the Police, the Chief Law Officer/Prosecutor Judiciary and the Prisons service
Although the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Act (CPA) and the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) do not prima facie encourage human rights violation, the loop holes in the laws and indeed some of the provisions had been exploited to produce human rights abuses and associated vices in the Criminal justice system.
The ACJA was introduced to address some of these issues.
Now Jurists from Rwanda, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Burundi have come together to share ideas with the aim of consolidating reforms in the criminal justice system and ensuring best practices in its administration.
It will afford participants the opportunity to juxtapose various act and laws across various African countries and improve the criminal Justice system of their countries.
