Africa Daily News, New York has revealed that over 30 inmates have fled a Lebanon detention center at dawn on Sunday after sawing their way through a window, according to a judicial official.
“At dawn … 31 detainees managed to escape” from a detention center in the Adlieh neighbourhood of the capital Beirut, the Internal Security Forces said in a statement on Sunday.
“Immediate orders were given to arrest them and investigations are underway.”
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The detainees broke past a prison window using a saw smuggled into the facility, said …
The Federal Government of Nigeria in coalition with the Nigerian Correctional Service has on Friday openly declared 69 of the inmates who escaped from its Kuje Medium Security Custodial Centre in Abuja on Tuesday night wanted and asked the general public to supply information about them if they had any in order to aid with their recapture.
The 69 Kuje inmates have also been revealed to have cases relating to terrorism and being members of the Boko Haram sect.
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“If you see any of these people, or have useful information …
The Custodial Centres of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) have revealed that they are currently in charge of over 16,000 inmates above their carrying capacity, a situation has been revealed to have fuelled some form of aggression among the inmates and overstretched the prison system in the country.
At the moment, the Custodial Centres of the Nigerian Correctional Service have been revealed to have a combined carrying capacity of 58,278 inmates in the country.
The Controller-General of Corrections (CGC), Haliru Nababa, while speaking at the Second Controller-General of Corrections’ Retreat …
A military report cited by AFP news agency said detainees at the Los Llanos prison on Friday staged “a disturbance of public order … resulting in 17 deaths and nine injuries”.
The army gave no reason for the upheaval, but a prisoners’ rights group and a legislator said the riot resulted from prison authorities banning prisoners’ relatives from bringing them food, as is customary in Venezuelan jails, as part of coronavirus containment efforts.
“The prisoners are upset
Inside Nigerian prisons, some inmates are breaking new grounds and making millions of naira by venturing into productive ventures.
The most outstanding are two inmates who took to agriculture and invested their earnings on education and transportation while still in the custodian centres set up by the authorities of Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS).
The two inmates have also become their families’ bread winners with one of them maintaining two of his children up to the university level.
Although the NCoS did not disclose the record-breaking inmates’ identities, NAN learnt that one of them is at the Kaduna State Custodial Camp …
Prison authorities in Europe are not doing enough to monitor the health of inmates, meaning prisoners are more likely to suffer untreated conditions and are released without adequate support, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
The UN body warned that such failings will come at a “high cost” for society at large as they add to the public health burden.
The WHO collected the data of 39 European countries between 2016 and 2017 and recommended that prisons test for tuberculosis, sexually transmitted diseases, mental health problems and addictions.
“A prison sentence takes away a person’s liberty; it should not also …
Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command yesterday said they have rescued fifteen inmates chained in a prayer house being used as detention camp.
The police in a statement signed by the command spokesman, Bala Elkana , Deputy Superintendent of Police said they acted on information from a reliable source to rescue the inmates.
According to him, “A team of detectives from Isheri Osun Police Station led by the Divisional Police Officer, CSP Chike Ibe stormed a prayer House used as detention camp at No 26 Alafia Street, Oriofe Ijegun Isheri, where the Prophet, Sunday Joseph Ojo ‘m’ 58years old …
The Kaduna State Police Command has raided another rehabilitation centre in Kaduna, where 147 inmates mostly in shackles were found.
The Command Public Relations Officer, DSP Yakubu Sabo confirmed the raid in a press statement issued on Saturday in Kaduna.
He said that the police raided NIGAS Rehabilitation and Skills Acquisition Centre located at Rigasa in Igabi Local Government Area, at about 8 am on Saturday.
According to him, Gov. Nasir El-Rufai led the operation at the center which had male and female inmates.
Sabo explained that during the raid, some of the inmates made certain allegations of maltreatment …
