Jail Delivery Committee headed by the Chief Judge Adamawa State, Hon. Justice Hafsat Abdulrahaman, has rounded up prison decongestion at 3 Correctional centres in Yola, Adamawa state.
The committee visited Yolde Pate known as Yola New, Yola Old and Jimeta Correctional Centers and discharged no fewer than 100 inmates awaiting trial and convicts serving various prison term.
The JDC granted bail to 54 inmates both awaiting trial convicts as well as reviewed the sentences and convicted several others.
During the visit, several inmates awaiting trial were summarily tried and convicted after they had pleaded guilty to the offences mostly theft of which they accused. Some of them were sentenced to community service at police stations and health centres.
Addressing the beneficiaries shortly after the exercise, the Chief Judge, said that the committee has tempered justice with mercy and urged them to also do justice to the committee.
She advised them to be good citizens whenever they get back to the society and engage in legal businesses to earn a living and warned them not to engage in crime again.
She told them that the court or committee will not be lenient to anyone re-arrested for any crime, urging them to justice to the committee since the committee has done justice to them.
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