Frank Baine

The Uganda Prisons case has registered a total of 1,150 COVID-19 cases since June 2020, the Prisons spokesperson Frank Baine says

Ugandans have been urged to stay out of trouble and disregard all messages inciting violence from all sources that wish to put the country into a panic mode.

The Minister of Internal Affairs Hon. Gen Jeje Odongo has signed a statutory instrument known as the prisons amendment regulations 2020 in relation to the prisoners earning scheme.

The Officer in Charge of Moroto Prisons Norman Aruho has been suspended to avoid interfering with investigations into the prison break at the facility which left more than 200 prisoners on the loose and at least 14 guns in the hands of criminals.

Members of the community have been accused of aiding the escape of 219 inmates from Moroto Government Prison.

Uganda Prisons services continues to carry out its work of delivering inmates to courts to have their cases heard as per the laws of the land. 

President Yoweri Museveni has pardoned 178 foreign prisoners as a means to reduce on the number of inmates in prisons and prevent the spread of the COVID19 pandemic. The foreigners were part of the 833 prisoners pardoned by the President. 

Taxi drivers and boda boda riders have been warned against transporting people from different city suburbs to the main roads as this is against the presidential guidelines on public transport.

The Germany National Bernhard Bery Glaser, 71 has Thursday morning succumbed to cancer at Luzira prison.

Uganda Prisons spokesperson Frank Baine has trashed reports that Jinja RDC Erick Sakwa was released from prison immediately after court charged him and two others with manslaughter and robbery.

More unemployed youths have had no option but to join security forces just to put a meal on their plates.

Winnie Byanyima, the wife to jailed opposition leader Dr. Kiiza Besigye has revealed that her husband has been allowed to cook his own meals during his stay at Luzira maximum prison.