Legal Dilemmas

A Guest Post By Raymond Ijeomah During my Court Attachment at the Law School, I had a glimpse of the kind of torture innocent citizens go through in our prisons. This made me often sad and I wondered why this had to be so. Can't the authorities try them go or let them go if they can't find convincing evidence to nail them for the alleged offences? Just yesterday, at a Goal Delivery visit to one of the states prison under the auspices of the Legal Aid Council of Nigeria, I and a few senior colleagues sought the bail of prisoners who were overdue for bail or who should not be there in the first place. My experience on the visit was mind boggling and it has led me to further research on the state of the Nigerian prisons and the need for the Nigerian government to do something about the situation pronto. According to Okeke T. (2010) "All over the world, prisons are established to serve as rehabilitation and reformatory institutions with the ultimate goal