Taking correctional centres beyond name change |

Weighing options in prisons decongestion
Seeking to decongest the Correctional Centres, the House of Representatives, weeks ago passed for second reading, a bill to move correctional centres from exclusive to the concurrent list in the 1999 Constitution. When passed into law, State Governments would be at liberty to construct and manage their own Correctional facilities.

Leading the debate on the bill, its sponsor and House spokesman, Ben Kalu reiterated that prisons in Nigeria cannot reform errant members of the society sent there for corrections. He stated that rather than being…