Congestion In Nigerian Prisons And Matters Arising — Leadership Newspaper

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Prisons are public correctional institutions established by government where inmates — both suspects and convicts — are detained.

Concerned citizens observe that over the years, the situation in Nigerian prison cells across the country has become miserable where many inmates who are awaiting trial languish.

They observe that some of the inmates have even spent more years in prison than the actual years required if they had been convicted.

But Justice Ishaq Bello, Chairman, Presidential Committee on Prisons Reform, observes that apart from this, inmates with psychiatric problem create more challenges of congestion in the prisons because there are no psychiatric hospitals close to prison formations.

“Some inmates went to the prisons with the sickness but a lot of them developed it in the prisons such as we saw in Delta and Edo where quite a number of them have developed psychosis in the prisons.

“The prisons authority has to continue to manage these persons and the…



Source: Leadership Newspaper