Continuation of Prison Decongestion: For about 4 years, HRCRC has been representing and trying to secure the release of 36 inmates incarcerated in the Abakaliki Correctional Custodial Center (Prisons) unjustly. These inmates had been discharged by four different courts on four different occasions in the course of our interventions but their detention continued. Gleefully, 12 […]
Providing Access to Mental Wellness
Providing Access to Mental Wellness through counselling and therapy services is one of our thematic focus. Inmates in prisons are some of the most traumatized of the Nigerian society today and HRCRC through this department has been providing this service to inmates of the Abakaliki Correctional Centre (Prisons). Part of our 2025 workplan is to […]
Justice, Human Rights and Prison Decongestion
Justice, Human Rights and Prison Decongestion Following our resolve to uphold Human Rights by Decongesting the Prisons of inmates who shouldn’t be incarcerated, HRCRC facilitated the release of 13 inmates – discharge of five (5) and bail of eight (8) from Abakaliki Correctional Centre between May and June, 2024. Remarkably, one of 5 who was […]
HRCRC’s Access to Justice Drive
HRCRC’s Access to Justice Drive In line with our drive to see to decongestion and depopulation of the Abakaliki and Afikpo Correctional Custodial Center (prisons), HRCRC has facilitated the discharge and bail of 3 inmates since the beginning of the year 2024, whilst still representing over 30 inmates in different courts probono. Pictured here is […]
HRCRC Visits Abakaliki Correctional Centre to Mark International Human Rights Day
HRCRC Visits Abakaliki Correctional Centre to Mark International Human Rights Day: Commemorating the 2023 International Human Rights Day Themed – Freedom, Equality and Justice for All, Human Rights and Conflicts Resolution Centre HRCRC, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State visited the Nigeria Correctional Service, Abakaliki Custodial Centre, to interact with the wardens and inmates; donating medical items, drugs […]