Ghana: Rejoinder -Prisoners Threaten Hunger Strike

The attention of the Prisons Administration has been drawn to a story in the 5th October 2011 edition of your newspaper with the above caption, and we wish to react as follows:

The allegation that "a greater part of food donations made to the prisons by individuals, churches and other organisations end up in homes of prison officers, while a small quantity trickles down"... to the inmates is entirely false.

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