Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee has discharged a total number of 223 out of 461 inmates including women awaiting trial at Yolde Pate New Medium Security Custodial Center.
Equally, the committee has discharged a total number of 26 out of 178 convicted inmates serving various jail terms at the correctional centre and admitted 52 to bail.
The Jail Delivery Committee headed by the Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Hapsat Abdulrahaman, discharged as well as admitted the inmates to bail when the committee visited the center on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
The committee convicted and sentenced the 2 inmates to 5 years imprisonment each after confessing to the alleged offences of which they were remanded.
During the visit, the committee reviewed sentences of the convicted inmates sentenced between 3 to 10 years mostly for criminal breach of trust, cheating among several other offences.
Some of the convicts were discharged while others had their punishment reviewed down ward depending on the prison terms slammed on them by various courts.
Addresing the beneficiaries shortly after the exercise, the Chairman of the Committee who is also the Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Hapsat Abdulrahaman, warned the beneficiaries not to go back to the society and commit crime again.
Justice Hapsat told them that the court will not be lenient to anyone of them who is re-arrested for any offence, and advised them to be of good behaviour in the society.
In his remarks, the Controller of Corrections, Adamawa State, Ahmed Abdu Usman, commended the Chief Judge and her committee for a job well done and congratulated the beneficiaries.
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