The Rivers State Judiciary has launched a complete of 150 inmates throughout Most Safety Custodial Centres in the state as a part of its purpose supply train for the 2024/2025 legal year.
Whereas the Justice of the Peace Courts launched 109 inmates inside the interval below evaluation, the Chief Choose of Rivers State, Justice Simeon Chibuzor Amadi, launched 41 inmates, bringing the full to 150.
This was disclosed by the Chief Choose in the course of the launch of the ultimate batch of inmates on the Port Harcourt Most Safety Custodial Centre on Wednesday, as a part of actions marking the graduation of the 2025/2026 legal year.
Justice Amadi said that the train was aimed toward decongesting custodial centres throughout the state.
The Chief Choose emphasised that the initiative is each constitutional and humanitarian, rooted in the powers vested in the Chief Choose “below the Administration of Prison Justice Regulation of Rivers State.”
He defined that the motion was meant to free inmates who had overstayed with out trial, had lacking case information, or whose instances warranted reconsideration.
Justice Amadi additionally referred to as for stronger collaboration among the many Police, the Ministry of Justice, the Judiciary, and the Correctional Service to make sure correct investigations and the speedy dispensation of justice.
He suggested the launched inmates to not return to crime however to “turn into ambassadors of a greater society.”
In his remarks, the Controller of Correctional Centres, Rivers State Command, Felix Madumere, counseled the judiciary for its cooperation in decongesting services, selling justice, and giving hope to these awaiting trial.
Madumere additionally referred to as for “the institution of a Board of Prerogative of Mercy” and the supply of further infrastructure, significantly for demise row inmates and lifers, noting that such measures would additional assist to decongest custodial centres.
