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.

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Okay,so how would changing the name reduce the number of criminals roaming down the streets,FTC for the first time

Hmmmm

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

But the PRISONS change not abi is that one too CORRECTED @NCS

Many leave there hardened!

Only name change ,what about attitudinal change ? Will name change change the sorry state of our prisons? Just like NEPA to phcn and what have you?

They should call it National Reset Service, for that is where they reset people's heads. Although a lot of prisoners correctioners come out more hardened.

All I see is somebody chopping contract money for repainting logo on cars, rebadging, etc.

So in essence, a rank of Asst. Superintendent of Correctional Officer "ASCO" would now exist..

Change in name, same poor services....

Trust me, this is one place you don't want to find yourself. They should've named it "The Underworld"

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Nor be so nepa don change name taya.......dem change??

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Hmmm

Sounds about right

Is it because whites call theirs "Correctional Facility?"

Everytime copy copy.

This sounds awkward please which one is correction. Na correction fluid

Name is not development

Its dumb....dosnt make sense .....our prisons are not up to standard of a correctional facility

Still a slum

Oga oo

Ok. It is noted.

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Does Nigerian prisoners bath at all?