The Nigerian Correctional Service, Kwara State Command, has dismissed reports of alleged jailbreak on Monday in Ilorin, at the Borstal Training Institute. Reports had alleged that nine inmates escaped ...

Law for young offenders helps inmates mend their ways, but is also vulnerable to misuse. It was a petty theft that landed 19-year-old Kannan (name changed) in Puzhal prison. A few months among ...

The President of the Nigerian Correctional Officers’ Wives Association, Mrs Ebelechukwu Obiano, has urged the Federal Government to rehabilitate and revive the abandoned Ngwo Borstal Institute in ...

New assistant controller-general (ACG) of Corrections, Mrs Prisca Oku, has visited the 93-year-old dysfunctional Borstal Training Institution, Ngwo, near Enugu, calling on governments and ...

Accra, Dec. 13, GNA - The Ghana Borstal Institution in Accra is to be known as Senior Correctional Centre, a statement from the Ghana Prisons Service said on Wednesday. The statement signed by Mr I. K ...

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has expressed concerns over the poor conditions of inmates at Nigeria’s borstal institutions. Nigeria has three borstal institutions located in Ogun, Kwara ...

ABUJA: The Federal Government has ordered the immediate audit of Borstal Homes of the Nigerian Correctional Service NCoS with a view to ascertaining their present statuses. The development came as the ...

The Presidential Committee on Correctional Reform and Decongestion has released 122 children from the Borstal Training Institute in Ilorin, Kwara State. The committee led by its chairperson, Ishaq ...