‘Being in prison doesn’t mean someone is evil’ – Shehu Sani

Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani, has said prisons should not beryllium viewed chiefly arsenic places of punishment, but arsenic correctional centres wherever inmates are fixed opportunities to reform, physique quality and hole for reintegration into society.

Represented by Malam Nasiru Abbas astatine the 1st Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) Security, Welfare Agenda (SWAC) Conference Graduation Ceremony successful Kaduna, helium said imprisonment should supply radical with an accidental to bespeak connected their lives and close their mistakes.

He said his idiosyncratic acquisition of incarceration had fixed him a deeper knowing of situation life, noting that helium had been held astatine Kaduna Prison and different correctional facilities.

According to him, his acquisition was 1 of the reasons helium attached value to the juncture and would person attended personally but for an engagement that came up unexpectedly.

Sani said galore radical had ne'er visited a situation oregon adjacent seen a constabulary cell, making it hard for them to recognize the intent of correctional institutions.

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