Low Judiciary Funding Blamed for Remand Home Congestion in Uganda
The Chief Justice has attributed rising congestion in remand homes to funding gaps and staff shortages in the Judiciary, warning that delayed justice delivery continues t...
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Are we witnessing the last of NRM?
Museveni addressing NRM supportersPrison is ugly. Even the best prisons of the world are entirely humiliating.Locked away from family, denied pleasures and comforts of th...
Supreme Court Set to Decide If Life Imprisonment Means 20 Years or Forever
Uganda’s upreme Court is set to determine whether life imprisonment in Uganda means 20 years or a convict’s entire life, during a planned two-day constitutional sessi...
Byanyima Says Besigye’s Life in Danger, Ready to Engage Govt for His Release
Winnie Byanyima speaking to reporters at her home in Kasangati on Saturday.The Executive Director of UNAIDS and wife to jailed veteran opposition politician Dr Kizza Besi...
Uganda: NUP Leaders Visit Luzira As Detained Supporters Blast 'Opportunistic' Dialogue With Museveni
Leader of the Opposition Joel Ssenyonyi on February 12, 2026 led a National Unity Platform (NUP) delegation to Luzira Prison, where detained party supporters criticised r...
Cop Ampe released on bond
Dismissed Uganda Prisons warder Lawrence Ampe, widely known as Cop Ampe, was released on police bond on February 5, 2026, after being charged with a cyber crime offence m...
UNEB to release 2025 PLE results this Friday
The Uganda National Examinations Board will release the 2025 PLE results this Friday, Jan. 30. Get details on candidate performance and the revised 2026 school calendarKA...
Uganda Prisons denies claims of female inmates getting pregnant in jail
The prison authorities described allegations from members of parliament as unfounded and impossible under the current prison system.Officials from the Uganda Prisons Serv...
Byanyima Says Besigye Is Seriously Ill in Prison
Winnie Byanyima, wife of jailed opposition figure Dr. Kizza Besigye, has raised serious concerns over her husband’s health, accusing prison authorities of delaying and...
‘I was declared deserter for resisting COVID-19 corruption in Uganda Prisons Service’
A former Uganda Prisons Service custody health officer, James Turyatunga, has accused the institution of corruption and denying him justice after he was declared a desert...