 As the population of Ghana is rapidly expanding to more than 29 million people, these bodies are often faced with massive backlogs of cases that need to be heard.This has led to overcrowding in prisons as people can sometimes be held for up to 6 years before their cases are even heard.Most of this is said to be caused by inadequate access to resources and infrastructure for these courts, as devices such as microphones and tape recorders only started to appear in the courts around the year 2000.