Whilst the prisons should be a correctional facility, where people
are rehabilitated while being remanded for their offences, it has
somewhat become the opposite in Nigeria. It is like the place where you
go to that you may or may not return. People thrown into prisons join
the multitude of people, guilty people, innocent people who have found
themselves in the spot with little or no help forthcoming.
The deplorable state of our prisons have also heightened corruption
around the police stations, where criminals would rather part with huge
sums of money rather than stay behind those musty, wee-wee smelling
bars. More after the cut...
The number of awaiting trial inmates in different prisons is
alarming. Some people have spent eight years waiting for trial. These
are factors that the government should look into. The current state of
the prisons is really saddening.
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