Since prisons were renamed correctional centres, we’ve had more jailbreaks -Akpabio

In his response, the senate president said there is a need
to examine such laws.

“This is something to be looked at. When you are convicted,
you are supposed to learn a skill,” Akpabio said.

 “But since we changed
the name to the correctional centre, there have been more jailbreaks.”

In 2019, former President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law
the bill that changed the name of the Nigerian Prison Service to Nigerian
Correctional Service (NCoS).

The law provides that the correctional service is split into
the custodial service and non-custodial service.

In the non-custodial service, convicts are eligible for
community service, probation, and parole.

Since Buhari signed the bill into law, more than 1,000
inmates have escaped from correctional centres across the country.

On April 25, 119 inmates escaped from the Medium Security
Custodial Centre in Suleja, Niger state, following a downpour.