LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-In its quest to fill the dwindling ranks of its infantry, Ukraine has turned to recruiting prisoners to join the fight against Russia, and more than four thousand have applied so far. Under a deal offered to inmates by the government, prisoners will have their remaining sentences cleared – regardless of length…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Ukrainian prisoners will be able to apply for early parole and join the army under a new law aimed at boosting Kyiv’s manpower in its fight against the Russian invasion. The new law will apply only to prisoners who have no more than three years left of their original sentences and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Reports and video footage circulating on social media reveal that prisoners have broken out of a prison in Benin, Edo State Nigeria. At the moment, there is confusion about who exactly broke the prisoners out. While some say hoodlums masterminded the act, some others are blaming it on the #EndSARS protesters. Reports…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has asked the chief judge to free prison inmates who have been awaiting trial for six years or more to ease overcrowding as the novel coronavirus spreads, a spokesman said on Tuesday. A statement quoted Buhari as saying 42% of Nigeria’s 74,000 or so prisoners were awaiting trial….
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 800 inmates broke out of four prisons in São Paulo, Brazil, after the Justice Department announced it was postponing a work program that allowed inmates to leave jails amid the coronavirus panic. The massive jailbreak came as Brazil confirmed its first coronavirus-linked death Tuesday, a 62-year-old man who died Monday afternoon…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prisons across the UK could be forced to release low-category inmates to control the spread of coronavirus across the British justice system. General Secretary of the Prison Officers Association Steve Gillan this morning said that some prisoners across sites in the UK have already been forced to self-isolate within the prisons due to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the PDP, Mr. Peter Obi, on Tuesday celebrated the Christmas with prisoners at Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra State. Obi, who was visiting the inmates for the third time this year, joined Archbishop Valerian Okeke of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province with his entire family for Christmas mass…