Research on prison officers’ understanding and compliance with the international human rights instruments for the protection of prisoners’ rights and guidelines for justice administration remains scanty. Drawing on data from scenario-based interviews of 24 selected prison officers in the four largest prison facilities in Ghana, this article seeks to explore how Ghana prison officers understand and practice these instruments and guidelines that protect the rights of prisoners. Applying content analysis, the findings reveals that the overwhelming majority of officer participants in this study did not have adequate intellectual and practical understanding of these relevant instruments and guidelines.

关于监狱官员对保护囚犯权利的国际人权文书和司法管理准则的理解和遵守情况的研究仍然很少。本文利用对加纳四个最大监狱设施中 24 名选定监狱官员的情景访谈数据，试图探讨加纳监狱官员如何理解和实践这些保护囚犯权利的工具和准则。应用内容分析，调查结果表明，本研究的绝大多数官员参与者对这些相关文书和指南没有足够的知识和实践理解。