Ghana is stepping up efforts to close the gender gap and accelerate progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 5 (Gender Equality).

The government of Ghana, under President John Dramani Mahama, recently announced an approved increase in the daily feeding allowance for prisoners, raising it from the long-stagnant GH¢1.80 to GH¢5.

Although there are more men than women in prison, the growth rate of female imprisonment since 1980 has been twice that of men. Female incarceration in the U.S. has increased by more than 585 percent, ...