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Continuation of Prison Decongestion

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 of these inmates were discharged again yesterday and were released from detention. As we continue the fight to ensure the release of the others as well as other unjustly incarcerated inmates, we thank all through whose support, collaboration, and cooperation this was achieved.
Continuation of Prison Decongestion
Continuation of Prison Decongestion
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Providing Access to Mental Wellness

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 extend this service to the Afikpo Correctional Centre (Prisons) and to kick start this initiative, HRCRC’s Deputy Director and Counsellor and the Access to Justice Team formally visited the Correctional Centre to facilitate this engagement.
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Justice, Human Rights and Prison Decongestion

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 discharged and acquitted had been in custody for over six years Awaiting Trial.
We continue to advocate for a better, more humane, efficient and credible Criminal Justice System in Nigeria.

Justice, Human Rights and Prison Decongestion
Justice, Human Rights and Prison Decongestion

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HRCRC’s Access to Justice Drive

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 one of the freed inmates standing with HRCRC’s Legal Officer Chioma, George and Fr. Edet immediately after he was discharged from the correctional centre after being incarcerated for 3 years.

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HRCRC’s Access to Justice Drive

Prison Decongestion

 

 

 

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HRCRC Visits Abakaliki Correctional Centre to Mark International Human Rights Day

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 and toiletries, whilst encouraging the inmates.

Of almost 1500 inmates in the 380-capacity Custodial Centre, only 63 are convicted as at today 11th December, 2023.