{"id":302028,"date":"2023-12-21T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T09:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=302028"},"modified":"2023-12-21T10:34:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T09:34:40","slug":"69-per-cent-of-nigerias-prison-inmates-awaiting-trial-says-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/12\/21\/69-per-cent-of-nigerias-prison-inmates-awaiting-trial-says-official\/","title":{"rendered":"69 per cent of Nigeria\u2019s prison inmates awaiting trial, says Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Summary of the inmates across the country by conviction and those on the awaiting trial list was 77,849 within the period under review<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) said no fewer than 53,836 inmates in the 253 correctional centres nationwide are awaiting trial as of December 18.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson of the service, Assistant Controller of Corrections (ACC), Abubakar Umar, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Umar said that the summary of the inmates across the country by conviction and those on the awaiting trial list was 77,849 within the period under review.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the total number of convicted inmates was 24, 013 persons, \u201cadding that the convicted male inmates were 23,569 and 444 convicted females, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStatistics show that 69 per cent of the inmates in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2023\/12\/15\/fg-opposes-repatriation-of-nigerian-in-us-prison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">custodial centres<\/a> are awaiting trial, while 31 per cent are convicted inmates,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Umar said that one of the challenges of the service was the issue of dilapidated custodial structures, which resulted in overcrowded and congested spaces within the centres.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the government has recently constructed 3,000 ultra-modern additional custodial facilities across the six geopolitical zones to decongest existing centres.<\/p>\n<p>He said the initiative would help in decongesting the centres as well as enhance the welfare and health of the inmates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat of Kano has been inaugurated, and we are expecting speedy completion of the remaining facilities under construction,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ongoing construction of Abuja and the Port Harcourt centres had reached completion stages, and they would soon be inaugurated,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He appreciated the Federal Government for raising N585 million towards the settlement of fines for inmates in a bid to decongest correctional centres across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also lauded the recent effort of the federal government to release 4,068 inmates serving various jail terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of the inmates across the country by conviction and those on the awaiting trial list was 77,849 within the period under review The Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) said no fewer than 53,836 inmates in the 253 correctional centres nationwide are awaiting trial as of December 18. 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