According to William Shakespeare "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". Therefore, it makes no difference changing the name when the system is still as ineffective.

Good move. Its new name serves its purpose, which is to punish and ‘correct’ offenders. Thereby, giving them an opportunity to reflect on their wrong acts.

5billion naira contract to change name og billboards, letters, logos and uniform. i love Nigeria

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The main question should be, Is our prisons correctional facilities or hellfire?

The Nigerian government will not stop fooling themselves.

Change the name all you want but Nigerian prisons can never be called correctional facilities, because the squalid conditions don't correct or rehabilitate criminals to be better society people upon return. Instead, the conditions make them hardened and worse upon release than they came in.

That below is what a correctional facility is..

Nothing has changed

Does anyone still doubt that the idiot does not have any idea of what to do?

Pavore9:
Many leaves there hardened!

Many leaves

Yimu!

Same fuckerssssss

You can change the name all you want...All I know is, if you ever get incarcerated in a Nigerian prison, you will understand the phrase "...treated like an animal..."

When I hear of NCS
I think of Nautical Control Solutions

Correction service facility is quite different from maximum facility prison and u need both.

And what is the condition of Nigerian Correctional Services?

damiloladuke:
A new bill signed into law on Wednesday by President Muhammadu Buhari has effected a change of name for the Nigerian Prisons Service.

From henceforth, it will be referred to as the Nigerian Correctional Service.

Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Ita Enang, made the disclosure while speaking with journalists covering the State House in Abuja on Wednesday.

Read the full statement below

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MATTERS: PRESIDENTIAL ASSENT

1. Nigerian Correctional Service Act, 2019

2. Federal Universities of Agriculture (Amendment No.2) Act, 2019

His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari has assented the within named Acts, as analysed below:

Nigerian Correctional Service Bill, 2019
This Act repeals the Prisons Acts and changes the name from Nigeria Prisons Service to Nigerian Correctional Service, otherwise known as “the Correctional Service.”

There are, according to the Act, two main faculties of the Correctional Service, namely:
(a) Custodial Service
(b) Non-custodial Service

The Custodial Service is to:

(a) custody and take control of persons legally interned in safe, secure and humane conditions.

(b) Conveying remand persons to and from courts in motorized formations;

(c) Identifying the existence and causes of anti-social behaviours of inmates

(d) Conducting risk and needs assessment aimed at developing appropriate correctional treatment methods for reformation, rehabilitation and reintegration;

(e) Implementing reformation and rehabilitation programmes to enhance the reintegration of inmates back into the society

(f) Initiating behaviour modification in inmates through the provision of medical, psychological, spiritual and counselling services for all offenders including violent extremists

(g) empowering inmates through the deployment of educational and vocational skills training programmes, and facilitating incentives and income generation through Custodial Centres, farms and industries

(h) Administering borstal and related institutions;

(I) Providing support to facilitate the speedy disposal of cases of persons awaiting trial, and It further provides in Section 12 (2) (c):

“that where an inmate sentenced to death has exhausted all legal procedures for appeal and a period of 10 years has elapsed without execution of the sentence, the Chief Judge may commute the sentence of death to life imprisonment. And Section 12 ( empowers the state Controller of the Service to reject more intakes of inmates where it is apparent that the correctional centre in question is filled to capacity.

THE NIGERIAN NON-CUSTODIAL SERVICE
This non-custodial faculty of the Correctional Service is responsible for the administration of non-custodial measures, namely: Community Service, probation, parole, restorative justice measures and such other measures as a court of competent jurisdiction may order. Restorative Justice measure approved in the Act includes victim-offender mediation, family group conferencing, community mediation and other conciliatory measures as may be deemed necessary pre-trial, trial during imprisonment or even post- imprisonment stages.

Federal Universities of Agriculture (Amendment No.2) Act, 2019

This Act amends the Federal Universities of Agriculture Act, Cap. F22, Law of the Federation of Nigeria to change the name of the Federal University of Agriculture Makurdi in Benue State to Joseph Sarwuan Tarka University, Makurdi.

https://lailasnews.com/nigerian-prisons-service-changes-name-check-out-new-name/

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We are indeed a nation obsessed with hypocritical semantics. What has changed in the modus operandi of the prisons to warrant this pretentious change of name? Hypocrites!!!
Same way the endemically and fantastically corrupt police force is engaged in media rebranding that bears no semblance with their true old corrupt selves! ( police is now your friend, bail is now free, bribes now obsolete, bla, bla, blah! )

Symphony007:
Nigeria is confused.
This is a Nigerian prison
And that is a correctional facility.

I really wish I could sit down with youth and we formulate a mini society/estate, where we handle everything A~Z.
From construction, to education, to morals to industry, production... Economy...
Everything.

Then use that model to formulate the rest of Nigeria.
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Many of our development problems are affected by tradition.

Good.. Remains the police force. They should change the word force to service.

Correctional indeed....

You don't mean it!

This is the next level Chang we are going to experience.

Copy copy Koffi

Penitentiary Nko? Yimu

You can change the frame but the picture remain the same.

b3llo:
Better, so now people will be confused when a correctional officer says he works with NCS. one might think he means Nigeria Customs Service.

lol

They should have changed it toNigeria kukunase service.

It would make NO Bloody difference!

b3llo:
Better, so now people will be confused when a correctional officer says he works with NCS. one might think he means Nigeria Customs Service.

Dem just dey confuse us everyday..abeg we sef dey enjoy d confusion

Wetin dem dey correct?

What ever name u choose people will still call it prison, take change of NEPA name for instance

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This unhealthy obsession we have for everything US is just so disturbing. From our singers, to our youths in general, to our politicians.
We have a fatal breakdown of the ability or desire to be creative, original, and visionary.
The job of these idiots in Abuja is to sit at home doing nothing to solve the crucial problems squeezing the soul out of Naija, but just look for any cultural mainstay of America that tickles their fancy and then copy it. When US named the systems Corrections facilities, it came after sweeping changes where made practiced and institutionalized. It's not by empty name tagging.
Where are the changes in the prisons? Where are the facilities on ground? When were personnel rigorously trained? Where are the educators for this project?

They just copy reform tenets from US and start pretending to be original. Empty dunces.
God will judge you people.

Countries like Holland is closing up their prisons because of low crime rate, Nigeria is busy changing name of an already rotten system