•Prison Two mothers and eight other inmates have regained freedom from the Nigerian Correctional Centre, Ibara, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The inmates – three women and seven men, were held for not meeting their bond requirements after committing various crimes, reports Daily Trust. Of the three women set free, two of them are nursing mothers. The ...
•Prison The Nigeria Correctional Service (NCoS) in Cross River State has raised concerns over the declining number of inmates in its facilities, stating that the shortage is affecting farming and community service programmes. Speaking at a two-day town hall meeting on the implementation of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL), org...
•UK flag The UK is today due to release early a second batch of 1,000 prisoners as the government launched a review of sentencing to ease chronic overcrowding in jails. The controversial policy previously saw 1,700 prisoners freed early last month, reports AFP. Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood pledged that earlier mistakes that led to 37 [&he...
•UK prison Thousands of prisoners in British jails were due to be released early today, as part of government moves to ease overcrowding. Recently released figures showed that the prison population in England and Wales was at its highest-ever level, reports AFP. But with concern about released prisoners reoffending, the government insisted tha...
•Student protesters Student protesters in the central Bangladeshi district of Narsingdi stormed a jail today and freed hundreds of inmates before setting it on fire, a police officer told our correspondent. “The inmates fled the jail and the protesters set the jail on fire,” the police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “I don’t...
•Britain national flag, The Union Jack Thousands of prisoners are to be released early in September to prevent overcrowding crisis and the “collapse” of the prison system, the UK’s new justice minister, Shabana Mahmood, announced today. Mahmood said failure to do so risked the “total breakdown of law and order”, with just 700 places left [&hel...
•Babajide Sanwo Olu Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on the recommendation of the Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy, has approved the release of 56 inmates from various correctional facilities across the state. A statement by the state’s Attorney General and Commissioner For Justice, Lawal Pedro, SAN, yesterday, said the governor also ap...
•Seyi Makinde No fewer than 33 inmates from various Nigerian Correctional Centres in Oyo state have been granted clemency. Ten of these inmates were released from custodial centres, while four individuals who were on death row have had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment, reports The Nation. Also, 15 inmates had their sentences reduc...
The federal government has released a total of 64 inmates from the various Custodial Centres in Edo State as part of its efforts to decongest Custodial Centres in Nigeria and to give indigent convicted inmates a second chance to turn a new leaf. This was contained in a statement made available to journalists in Benin, […]
•Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo The federal government, yesterday, said it had raised N585m towards the settlement of fines for inmates in a bid to decongest correctional centres across the country. The Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, represented by an Assistant Director in the ministry, Dr Anayo Romanus-Nzekwe, disclosed this yesterday in K...
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