The state authorities additionally mentioned it had taken steps to help inmates in resolving their authorized and different welfare challenges.
The Commissioner for Information, Okey Kanu, disclosed this at Government House, Umuahia, whereas briefing journalists on the end result of this week’s Executive Council assembly.
He defined that the state authorities was figuring out areas the place inmates required authorized assist, bail help, medical consideration and household assist.
Kanu additionally said that the federal government was offering examination alternatives for inmates.
In a associated growth, former Nigerian worldwide boxer Ikechukwu Okoronkwo has appealed to the Federal Government to urgently tackle dilapidated infrastructure on the Nigeria Correctional Centre in Arochukwu, Arochukwu Local Government Area of Abia State.
Okoronkwo, who visited the Arochukwu Correctional Centre over the weekend, expressed concern over the poor situation of the workers quarters.
