It could be your relative.
At Caprecon Foundation, we have a Prisoners Welfare Project within our Human Rights advocacy service.
This entails visiting prisons to see about the welfare of inmates, amongst other services.
And so we had a privileged access to the Correctional Facility in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria, courtesy of an urbane and genial deputy comptroller.
A man with incredible foresight as far as the reformation of the Kalskaeque criminal system is concerned.
It may intrigue you to know that a number of inmates who are languishing in prisons ought not to be there in the first place.
They are poor and without lawyers.
They include young females, some with children.
Most are incarcerated for not being able to pay fines for petty crimes committed.
Most are awaiting trials for offences as insignificant as trespassing.
Some fines are as little as £5.
And that is where we try to help, to effect their releases.
As it turned out:
one of those whose release we effected, though a petty criminal, was there because he was involved in a brawl over the disappearance of ‘his’ barbering tool. Clippers.
He is a mobile barber.
Well, we managed to get him a pair of clippers and other tools to aid his mobile barbering vocation, and hope he stays out of trouble.
And it turns out:
he is a relative of mine. (distant)…..Most families have one like that.
dr dh – Caprecon Foundation