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New study suggests California's prison population reduction via realignment has been generally successful This new entry at The Crime Report, headlined "California's Prison Downsizing Offers a Model for Other States, Study Says," reports on notable new research suggesting that crime has not increased dramatically after California was force in the wake of the Plata ruling to reduce its prison population.  Here is the start of the entry describing the research: The success of California's Public Safety Realignment Act in reducing state prison populations without a corresponding increase in cri...

  The Ranking Member of the Mines and Energy Committee of Parliament, Mr John Abdulai Jinapor, has said the current intermittent power outages in the country popularly known as dumsor, is due to financial challenges and not because of technical challenges as being claimed by state transmitter Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) and some government officials. “This is because the transmission lines and transformers are congested due to underinvestment and lack of regular maintenance resulting from the poor financial health of the energy sector State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs),” Mr Jinapor s...

Graphic Online BY: Maclean Kwofi 705 The Government of Ghana (GoG) is seeking approval from Parliament to spend a total of GH¢113.75 billion, equivalent to 26.2 per cent of the total value of goods and services produced in the country as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) in the 2021 financial year, to effectively roll out its policies. Christened ‘Won ya Wohie Budget”, literally meaning “We are moving forward”, the estimates of the government’s revenue and expenditure were on the theme: “Economic Revitalisation through Completion, Consolidation & Continuity. The governmen...

+ After a year of havoc, wreaked on the economy by COVID-19, the government has laid a blueprint of bold policies and programmes to stop the spread of the virus and contain its effects; revert the economy onto the path of transformational growth and ensure prosperity for all Ghanaians. In the country’s first budget since the virus struck in March last year, the government sought the permission of Parliament to raise more revenue from the public, grant tax rebates to businesses and increase spending on infrastructure and productive sectors in a burden-sharing effort meant to pull the nation ...