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"The Challenges of Prison Reform (Lagos)
OPINION
July 6, 2004
Posted to the web July 6, 2004
Lagos
With Awaiting Trial Inmates in Nigerian Prisons said to account for between 55-75% of the prison population, Maryam Uwais looks at the prisons of tomorrow from the civil society perspective. She proffers suggestions on how the weaknesses in the criminal justice system can be strengthened, even within current constraints.
The major concerns that arise from the sorry state of the Nigerian Prisons Service and make a mockery of the enormous resources made available in efforts to ameliorate the suffering of inmates in our prisons today, include congestion in most prisons (caused by the teeming numbers of awaiting trial inmates) and the appalling neglect experienced by the officers and men of the Service itself."
