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2017, a challenging year for Prisons Service – Controller-General

The Controller-General of Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), Ja’afaru Ahmed has said last year was a very challenging one for the Service, stressing that the prisons…

The Controller-General of Nigerian Prisons Service (NPS), Ja’afaru Ahmed has said last year was a very challenging one for the Service, stressing that the prisons were becoming harder to manage as a result of overcrowding of pre-trial detainees.

The Prisons CG noted that managing this category of inmates had always been fraught with risks and myriad of problems even with the deployment of large toll of the Services’ human and material resources.

He said this while addressing the members of press on Wednesday during a facility tour of the Prisons Service’s farm centre in Dukpa.

The Prisons CG who spoke through the Public Relations Officer of the Service, Francis Enobore, noted the rate of influx of inmates will soon make a travesty of the present decongestion effort of the government.

He lamented that some state task forces arrest minor offenders like street hawkers and send them to the prison without a corresponding mechanism for further care and support.

“We are of the opinion that the 2015 Administration of Criminal Justice Act should be domesticated and implemented in states so that alternative to custodial punishment can be used.”

Ja’arfaru however, said the federal government has been supportive in the provision of logistics which had improved the management of prisons in the country.

“Recently, large quantity of assorted drugs were procured and distributed to prison hospitals and clinics for quick medical attention when the need arises, thus addressing the incessant health challenges faced by prisoners,” he said.

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