Rivers: Amaechi pardons 683 prison inmates
Rivers, State News Thursday, April 21st, 2011A total of 683 in-mates, including two minors, of the Port Harcourt prisons, were on Wednesday granted their freedom by the Rivers State government in this year’s jail delivery.
The jail delivery is an annual practice of the Rivers State government on the advice of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) to free prison inmates on a number of considerations, among which is health.
Among the 683 inmates that were released, 500 were freed because their files had been declared missing; 27 of them were released on the advice of the DPP, while others were released due to poor health.
Speaking during the exercise, the state’s Chief Judge, Justice Iche Ndu, said the gesture was also aimed at de-congesting the prisons.
He, however, advised the former inmates to turn away from those things that could return them to prisons and urged members of the public, especially religious organisations, to advise their followers on how to live meaningful lives and stay off criminal activities.
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