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Published:<\/em> April 29, 2026<\/p>\n MONROVIA —<\/strong> A senior Justice Ministry official told a gathering of public defenders Wednesday that 70 percent of Liberia’s prison population has never been convicted of a crime, exposing what he described as a systemic breakdown across the country’s entire justice chain.<\/p>\n Assistant Minister for Rehabilitation Gabriel Ndupellar told the 8th Annual Convention of the National Association of Public Defenders of Liberia that of 3,768 inmates currently held in correctional…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Published: April 29, 2026 MONROVIA — A senior Justice Ministry official told a gathering of public defenders Wednesday that 70 percent of Liberia’s prison population has never been convicted of a crime, exposing what he described as a systemic breakdown across the country’s entire justice chain. Assistant Minister for Rehabilitation Gabriel Ndupellar told the 8th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00520225:298f2e379a8acaf90b9ff8c5d1c4e3f3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,11361,6427,4712,1107,1090,257,5092,6444,14326,254],"class_list":["post-232005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-convicted","tag-government","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberian","tag-news","tag-official","tag-prisoners","tag-reveals","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00520225:298f2e379a8acaf90b9ff8c5d1c4e3f3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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