The
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said that 70 per cent of inmates in
prisons across the country are awaiting trial.
Mrs
Morphy Okwa, the commission’s Assistant Director, Investigation and
Coordination revealed this while presenting a report at a stakeholders’
validation of the 2014 prison audit report and 2015 election report.
Okwa
that though prisons in six states were visited in the last exercise, a
compilation of reports from previous visits informed the commission of the
current situation.
“It
was found that there were 240 prison institutions spread across Nigeria as
follows: 138 main prisons, 85 satellites, 14 Farm Centres, and 3 borstal
institutions.
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