Nigerian Prisons Service Statistics as 31st March, 2016 is presented below:
Total Number of Prisons is 241
Total installed capacity is 50,153
BREAKDOWN OF THE PRISON POPULATION
Male Female Total % of total inmate population
Convicted Prisoners
17,667 212 17,879 28
Unconvicted Prisoners
44,432 831 45,263 72
Total 62,099 1,043 63,142 100
BREAKDOWN OF THE CONVICTED PRISONERS
Male Female Total % of total convicts
Short term (< 2 yrs)
8,003 85 8,088 45.2
Long term (> or = 2yrs)
7,603 96 7,699 43.1
Condemned convicts (death row)
1,653 27 1,680 9.4
Lifers 408 4 412 2.3
Total 17,667 212 17,879 100
SUMMARY
Total inmate population is 63,142
Total number of convicted prisoners is 17,879 (28% of total inmate population)
Total number of unconvicted prisoners is 45,263 (72% of total inmate population)
Total number of male inmates is 62,099 representing 98% of the total inmate population
Total number of female inmates is 1,043 representing 2% of the total. This should be the age of rights . Domestic animals have a plethora of rights defended fiercely by humans . Yet , full blooded humans, citizens, wither in state custody in Nigeria. Kirikiri maximum prison has no barracoons but I wonder if some of its cells aren’t worse than those slave holding cages. Humans are held in conditions of such unspeakable indignity that should traumatize the conscience of any people, any cultured people. Public morality has become extremely elastic in Nigeria. Despite oil wealth, prevalent widespread poverty and anomie, unfortunately, mean that only misery bordering on barbarity will provoke the merest of public concern. After all haven’t some theorized that prisons cannot be more palatable than the average living conditions of generality on the outside? So since many live unsheltered in abject poverty in Makoko, inhospitable prisons aren’t therefore altogether immoral in the circumstance? That perhaps explains why dehumanization of inmates won’t abate soon.
But if the society chooses to incarcerate offenders , should it take more than time from them? Should it ruin them? Even condemned convicts deserve human dignity . Nigeria is a signatory to international treaties and conventions that prohibit cruel, inhuman and degrading punishments. Prisoners have rights protected by the law.
The painful truth is that the majority of the prison inmates are on remand, yet to be convicted, innocent . Even for convicted criminals, the prison must aim to reform and rehabilitate. The main essence of imprisonment must be to protect the public from harm prior to the reformation of the mind. Retribution and deterrence are good penal objectives but without reformation and rehabilitation they mean little.

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