‘Body No Be Firewood’: The Case for Conjugal Justice for Prisoners in Ghana and Recommendations

In Ghana, prisons continue to reflect colonial punitive legacies and face persistent challenges, including overcrowding, sexual violence, and high recidivism. Conjugal visitation offers a humane and potentially transformative response. Incarceration does not extinguish the natural human need for intimacy, and the law must remain responsive to changing social realities. As Lord Denning observed in Packer v. Packer “If we never do anything which has not been done before, we shall never get anywhere. The law will stand still whilst the rest of the world goes on.”