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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.
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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