Facility For 648 Inmates Now Houses 2,024 Persons, Enugu Prison Controller Laments | Sahara Reporters The controller, however, said with proper classification of petty offences, cases of congestion which have become the hallmark of Nigerian... READ MORE:
Ndubuisi Ogbodo, Controller of Prisons of the Enugu State Command, has expressed concern over the high number of inmates in the facility, which has tripled its capacity.Ogbodo spoke on Thursday in Enugu during the presentation of a baseline report on Decriminalisation and Declassification of Petty Offences, organised by the Prisoners’ Rehabilitation and Welfare Action.
The controller said it was disheartening that the facility with a capacity of 648 inmates now has 2,024 inmates. Ogbodo said the situation in prison facilities made it necessary for the government to come up with alternative means of addressing certain levels of wrongdoings in society.“Petty offences should be classified and defaulters should be put under community service so that they are not mixed with hardened criminals in jail,” he said.
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