Over 80 per cent of Prisoners in Nigeria are awaiting trial- PRAWA
The Prisoners Rehabilitation and Welfare Action (PRAWA) on Thursday said over 80 per cent of prisoners in Nigeria were awaiting trial.
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The holes of hell called Nigerian prisons
MEANWHILE, in responding to this development, the Federal Government recently constituted a committee to develop a strategy for the deployment of technology for the decongestion of prisons in Nigeria and the implementation of Virtual Automated Case Management System, VACMS. Government said the committee, chaired by the Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Ishaq Bello, would aid the systematic decongestion of all the prisons in the country as well as periodically analyse the number of detainees.
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Nigerian prisons becoming warehouse for dumping of poor citizens, group laments
A non-governmental organisation under the aegis of Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE-NIGERIA), has raised the alarm over the mounting number of awaiting trial inmates in the country.
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