FG holds workshop on Correctional Service Act implementation

The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has disclosed that the federal government would host a three-day high-level strategic workshop for the effective implementation of the Correctional Service Act, 2019.

This was contained in a statement issued by the special assistant on media and public relations to the minister, Dr. Umar Jibrilu Gwandu, in Abuja Friday.

According to the statement, the workshop, which will be hosted in collaboration with the Presidential Committee on Prisons Reform and Decongestion of Prisons and Nigerian Correctional Service, will begin from November 25 to 27, 2019.

It added that the aim of the workshop, with the theme: “Towards Effective Implementation of the Correctional Service Act, 2019,” “is not only to sensitise stakeholders, especially justice sector institutions, on the salient provisions of the Act, but to come up with a road map for the effective implementation of the provisions of the Act on non-custodial measures.”

The statement read in part: “The workshop is coming up as a demonstration of President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to the decongestion of prisons in Nigeria and towards the actualisation of the implementation of Correctional

Service Bill, 2019 into law by President Muhammadu Buhari on August 14, 2019. “The workshop will also engage participants to work together towards the development of a strategic action plan to support the deployment of non custodial services as provided by the Act.

“The Act also provides for sustainable mechanisms to address the cases of ever increasing number of awaiting trial inmates. The workshop will witness in attendance relevant stakeholders in the prison reform process including attorneys-general and chief judges from 36 states, Nigerian Correctional Service officials, law enforcement agencies, Rule of Law experts, representatives of civil society organisations (CSOs) and other participants from the six geo-political zones in Nigeria.”

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