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The major mandate of the Nigeria Correctional Service is the safe custody of the legally interned and to ensure that inmates are reformed, rehabilitated and effectively reintegrated back into society but the Correctional Service, formerly known as the Nigerian Prison Service, is bedeviled with a plethora of problems, hampering its ability to reform inmates. Apart from prison congestion, there is also the problem of corruption or compromise among some officials.

Recent directives by the Federal Government ordering immediate decongestion of correctional centres across the country is heartening, at least as a measure of alleviating the worsening, dehumanising living conditions of prisoners in those centres.

Sonnie Ekwowusi argues for the decongestion of the correctional centres I don’t know about you but I must confess that I am still unable to come to terms with the name correctional centres, the new name of the Nigerian prisons. Why? Because Nigerian prisons are not correctional centres: they are punishment centres, or, poignantly, human dignity violation centres. The Nigerian prisons, for lack of better expression, are hell on earth notwithstanding the change of the name. And since there is no correction in hell no prisoner can regain his humanity after passing through any of the Nigeria...