Buhari Changes Prisons Service To Nigeria Correctional Service.
After several years of being known as Nigeria Prisons Service, President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, a bill that changed the name to Nigeria Correctional Service.
The new law which repeal the Nigeria Prisons Act was announced by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Ita Enang in Abuja on Wednesday.
Under the new Act are two main faculties of the Correctional Service, namely: Custodial Service and Non-custodial Service
The Custodial Service is to take control of persons legally interned in safe, secure and humane conditions, Conveying remand persons to and from courts in motorized formations and Identifying the existence and causes of anti-social behaviours of inmates
Others are Conducting risk and needs assessment aimed at developing appropriate correctional treatment methods for reformation, rehabilitation and reintegration; implementing reformation and rehabilitation programmes to enhance the reintegration of inmates back into the society and initiating behaviour modification in inmates through the provision of medical, psychological, spiritual and counselling services for all offenders including violent extremists
In addition, under the Custodial service, the inmates are empowered through the deployment of educational and vocational skills training programmes, and facilitating incentives and income generation through Custodial Centres, farms and industries, administering borstal and related institutions; providing support to facilitate the speedy disposal of cases of persons awaiting trial.
Enang explained that the non-custodial faculty of the Correctional Service will be 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.
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