Information, topic by topic, on prisons across the world

January 3, 2020

Nigeria: prison tragedy

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A thorough investigation is necessary to avoid a recurrence

December 18, 2019

Nigeria: "Ikoyi Prison not fit for animals"

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A financial analyst, Lukman Okunade, was remanded at the Ikoyi Prison Service (now known as Ikoyi Correctional Centre) for three days pending the time he would meet his bail conditions. He told TAJUDEEN ADEBANJO that those days remain the darkest part of his life.

December 2, 2019

Nigeria: Ikoyi prison electrocution caused by overcrowded cell

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According to him, the facility had a capacity of 35 but accommodated 140 persons.

November 11, 2019

Nigeria: people with mental health conditions chained, abused

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Thousands of people with mental health conditions across Nigeria are chained and locked up in various facilities where they face terrible abuse, Human Rights Watch said today.

November 6, 2019

Nigeria: 259 personnes affamées libérées d'une prison islamiste (vidéo)

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September 10, 2019

Nigeria: military holding children as Boko Haram suspects

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Africa Nigeria

Thousands have been held in deplorable conditions.

September 10, 2019

Nigeria: Interview: children languishing in Nigeria’s military prison

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Africa Nigeria

Detained kids accused of Boko Haram sympathies, are actually Boko Haram victims.

September 4, 2019

Nigeria: miles de niños ilegalmente detenidos, acusados de yihadistas

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Africa Nigeria

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September 3, 2019

Nigeria: group lauds president for signing prison reform bill into law

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Africa Nigeria

Says it will reform Nigerian Prisons for better.

May 4, 2019

Nigeria: prison inmates seek better library facility

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Africa Nigeria

Inmates at the Makurdi Medium Prison, have appealed to the state and federal authorities to equip the prison library with relevant books and journals to enable them to develop themselves educationally.

April 29, 2019

Nigeria: children and women raped and abused in prison

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Harrowing investigation details instances of rape and abuse against children unlawfully detained in a maximum-security prison.

April 23, 2019

Nigeria: stringent bail conditions responsible for prison congestion

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Some lawyers in Lagos on Tuesday attributed prison congestion in the country to the inability of defendants to perfect stringent bail conditions.

August 14, 2017

Nigeria: Lagos CJ frees 62 juvenile offenders, 67 inmates with disabilities from prison

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Africa Nigeria

No fewer than 62 juvenile offenders, 67 inmates with disabilities held at Kirikiri Female prisons and Kirikiri Medium Prisons, Lagos, were on Monday released on the orders of the State Chief Judge, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade.

June 26, 2017

NIgeria: 70% of prison inmates are awaiting trial

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Africa Nigeria

Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazau, confirmed, yesterday, that more than 70 per cent of Nigerian prison inmates were on the awaiting trial list.

June 25, 2017

Nigeria: 70% of prison inmates are awaiting trial

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Africa Nigeria

The Minister of Interior, retired Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, on Sunday said that more than 70 per cent of inmates in Nigerian prisons were awaiting trial.

June 25, 2017

Nigeria: Eid-el-Fitr: Ganduje grants amnesty to 500 prisoners

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Africa Nigeria

Kano State Government on Sunday granted pardon to 500 inmates of prisons in the state to mark the Eid-el-Fitr. The state Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, granted the pardon to the inmates at Central Prison, Kurmawa in the state capital, while addressing a cross-section of the convicts, shortly afte…

June 16, 2017

Nigeria: weeping prisoner cries self to freedom

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Africa Nigeria

Ikechukwu Emmanuel, an inmate of Keffi Medium Security Prisons in Keffi in Nasarawa State, cried himself to freedom on Friday through the help of Prisons Officers Wives Association (PROWA). Mr. Emmanuel, not originally listed to benefit from the assistance of PROWA’s prison decongestion effort, eli…

May 18, 2017

Reps decry death of 900 inmates across Nigerian prisons

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The House of Representatives on Thursday expressed grave displeasure over the circumstances surrounding the death of 900 inmates across Nigerian prisons, due to inadequate medical personnel and facility.

April 4, 2017

Nigeria: 32 died in Lagos prison in 2016

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Africa Nigeria

6,047 inmates await trial in 2,500-capacity facility

March 12, 2017

Nigeria prisons have 68,259 inmates

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Africa Nigeria

The Nigerian Prison Service (NPS) has disclosed that over 68,000 inmates are being held in prison facilities through the country as at March 2017.

January 31, 2017

Nigeria: 47,229 awaiting trial in our prisons, says Osinbajo

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The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, monday lamented the delay in the country’s justice administration, which he said was the reason 47,229 detainees “are still awaiting trial in the prisons.”

January 3, 2017

Nigeria : Raising the bar in prisons administration, security and welfare

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Africa Nigeria

The Nigerian prisons legislation and practice are generally perceived to be “anti-prisoner”. They tend to completely take away all rights and self-respect of prisoners. This is unlike the general prison practice and legislation in other advanced nations.

December 29, 2016

Nigeria death row inmates secretly executed

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Three convicted criminals on death row for about two decades have been secretly executed in the first hangings in Nigeria since 2013, human rights lawyers and a fellow inmate said Thursday.

November 22, 2016

Nigeria : l’Etat punit et l’Eglise sauve

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Africa Nigeria

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