Viewers Corner’s comprehensive research revealed that prisons in Nigeria need a new face lift. In as much as offenders are paying for the crimes they committed, they should also be given some sort of amenities in line with other good prisons around the world. Prisons generally should be seen as a reform/rehabilitation home so that the offenders if released, would be useful to themselves and also to the society in general. If we take a look at Nigerian prisons today, offenders are treated like animals, normally it should not have been so but because of lack of awareness and the “I DON’T CARE ATTITUDE” on the part of our leaders, things are not done the right way.
In the prison, different kinds of programs should be established so that when the offenders finally leave the prisons, they can be able to practise the trade they learnt while in prison. The public should not see them as the worst human beings because lots of people are in the prison for various reasons. Judiciary all over the world are also not perfect, somehow the good guys are jailed while the bad guys are freed therefore after paying for the crime they committed, they should be able to live a normal and happy life again. Viewers corner is appealing to President Muhammadu Buhari to please put this prison topic in his agenda possibly build new good prisons in Nigeria and also modernize the existing ones to suit the conditions of the modern prisons around the world. Viewers corner is also advising that the Buhari’s administration should create more technical/educational programs for those in the prisons, create more facilities for them. Somehow, that someone committed an offence that took him or her into the prison does not mean he or she should be written off completely, NO. It should never be so because they can still be very useful to the society. It could be that when the offence was committed, the person was acting under the influence of something but by the time he or she realizes, then it was already late therefore in this person’s situation who has learned his or her lessons in the hard way can easily be rehabilitated and in the long run can be very useful to the society.
Once again, Viewers Corner is suggesting that the Buhari’s administration set up an honest committee to look into the conditions of those in the Nigerian prisons. They deserve maximum co-operation from the public to be able to associate and fit in properly when they are finally released from the prison. The government should also design a kind of rehabilitation program which would teach them real values about life and why crime should not be the way of life. They can also start the program right from when they are in the prison, the program will benefit them nicely including those serving life sentences. Viewers corner will continue to advise, counsel, teach and assist the government and the general public when necessary.
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