Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee(JDC) has released a total number 344 out of 1,475 inmates awaiting trial as well as those convicted from 3 correctional centers.
The benefitting inmates were awaiting trial while others serving their prison terms at Yolde Pate, Yola Old and Jimeta Medium Security Custodial Centers in the state capital.
Aside discharging some of the inmates, the committee admitted no fewer than 92 inmates to bail, convicted and sentenced 8 to various jail terms depending on their offences.
The Jail Delivery Committee headed by the Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Hapsat Abdulrahaman, discharged and granted bail as well as sentenced some of the inmates when her committee visited the 3 correctional centers.
While at Yolde Pate New Medium Security Custodial Center on Monday and Tuesday respectively, the committee discharged a total number of 223 out of 461 inmates including women awaiting trial.
The committee 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 committee convicted and sentenced 2 inmates to 5 years imprisonment each after confessing to the alleged offences of which they were remanded at the correctional center.
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 which had tried them.
At the Yola Old Correctional Center at the headquarters of Yola South LGA, the committee freed 58 out of 343 awaiting trial inmates and granted bail to 27 others.
It also discharged 9 out of 110 convicted inmates serving their terms. Out of 110, 32 were on dead row while 5 others were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
While at Jimeta Prison, the committee met about 277 inmates awaiting trial and 106 convicted inmates and granted freedom to 23 from those awaiting trial and 5 from the convicted ones.
Addresing the beneficiaries shortly after the exercise at the 3 correctional centres respectively, 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 and engage in a productive ventures.
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.
Responding, some of the beneficiaries thanked the CJ and her committee for granting, saying that words cannot express their joy and promised to be of good behaviour in their various communities.
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