Tag: Uganda prisons

The Uganda Prisons Services has banned visits to inmates in five districts following the outbreak of Ebola.  A statement by the Uganda Prisons Service Spokesperson, Frank Mayanja Baine, says the Commissioner ...

A convicted inmate at Namalu prisons in Nakapiripirit district is facing fresh charges of assault. Wilson Magombe from Mayuge district, who was sentenced in 2013 to 17 years in jail for aggravated defilement ...

The police in Nwoya District are probing the sudden death of Charles Ochakacon, the Division Prisons Commander attached to Amuru and Nwoya Districts. The 54-year-old officer reportedly collapsed and died ...

President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Samuel Akena as Deputy Commissioner General of Prisons, replacing James Mwanjje who tenure of service in the Uganda Prisons Service (UPS) expired on May 12 ...

Members of Parliament Allan Ssewanyana and Muhammad Ssegirinya are protesting a ban on visitors to Kigo Prison where they have been incarcerated for the last five months. The MPs raised ...

Mohamed Akida the LC1 Chairperson Camp Swahili Chini village said many guns have flooded the Municipality and appealed the security to double their efforts to collect them. (URN) A joint ...