•Prison The Controller, Nigeria Correctional Service, Akwa Ibom Command, Mr Julius Ezugwu, said that about 2,413 out of 2,854 inmates were awaiting trials in the four correctional facilities across the state. Ezugwu said this at a one-day capacity-building workshop for the Akwa Ibom State Administration of Criminal Justice Monitoring Committee...
•Prison Three inmates of the Ijebu Ode Correctional Home in Ijebu Ode Local Government Area of Ogun State have escaped from the facility. The Public Relations Officer of Nigeria Correctional Service, Ogun State Command, Victor Oyeleke today, confirmed the jailbreak. Oyeleke disclosed that the incident happened early Saturday around 3 am, repor...
The Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS said no fewer than 3,341 males are currently on death row while 72 females are also to face the hangman noose. Controller General of the Service, Haliru Nababa disclosed this at a news conference yesterday in Abuja. He added that there are 1,293 males and 15 females in life sentence […]
•Zakariya Mohammed When Zakariya Mohammed was sent to the Medium Security Custodial Centre, Billiri, Gombe State, in December 2020, to serve his time, he was overwhelmed with despair. For days, he was frustrated with life, wondering how he would spend the years of his sentence within the four walls of a prison. However, things changed [&hellip...
Simmons was released in July after serving a total of 48 years, one month and 18 days in prison. A 71-year-old man has been declared innocent in the US state of Oklahoma after spending nearly 50 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Glynn Simmons, who is Black, served more time behind […]
•Prison The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) said no fewer than 53,836 inmates in the 253 correctional centres nationwide are awaiting trial as of December 18. The spokesperson of the service, Assistant Controller of Corrections (ACC), Abubakar Umar, told our correspondent in Abuja today. Umar said the summary of the inmates across the cou...
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