Medium Security Correctional Custodial Centre Invasion: Its Implications and Challenges on National Security System
| dc.contributor.author | Ishaya, Daniel Leku | |
| dc.contributor.author | Yiga, Helen Sadi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-14T09:06:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-12-14T09:06:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022-07-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Medium security custodial center in Nigeria is one of the major institution responsible for Inmates locked within the prison wells are segregated from the outside world, kept under constant scrutiny and surveillance and forced to obey a strict code of office rules to avoid facing formal sanction. The utility of security correctional centre as an institution for rehabilitation of offenders and preparing them for normal life has always been a matter of concern. Individuals who commit crimes are sent to correctional institution for rehabilitation and corrections for certain crimes such as murder, offenders may be sentenced to life imprisonment. Conceptual analysis and theoretical framework were used for confining people against their will whereby those awaiting trial or sentencing, execution, transportation and deportation to other states across the medium security service. Theories of Rehabilitation, deterrence, incapacitation and retribution explain a variety of justification and explanation of inmates in the security correctional institution. Secondary source of data collection was adopted in the study. Characteristics of prisons and classification are categorized in accordance with the types of the inmates, the structural features and the extend of security arrangement such as maxi-maxi security, maximum security, medium security, minimum security, women security and satellite prison. The challenges and problems of the prison breaks in Nigerian could be associated to many dangers such as lack of synergy and collaboration in the security operatives and threats to national security in society as a whole. Overcrowding, poor funding, inadequate dilapidated structures, poor feeding, unhygienic environment of the inmates, lack of modern facility such as closed-circuit televisions, e-monitoring device and electrically activated alarm system should be encouraged. The study concludes and recommends that there should be adequate measures for the functional security surveillance, improve intelligence gathering and protection of the centre to address feature occurrence bedeviling prison breaks. Therefore, provision for modem facility and monitoring device to regulate the rate of correctional security problem and to possibly reform and restructure to enhance institution for better services. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Daniel Leku Ishaya Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Nasarawa State University, Keffi | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/7101 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Department of Sociology, Nasarawa State University Keffi | en_US |
| dc.subject | Security, Correctional, Custodial, Invasion, Challenges and Implications | en_US |
| dc.title | Medium Security Correctional Custodial Centre Invasion: Its Implications and Challenges on National Security System | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |