Nigeria: NCoS conducted non-custodial sentences to over 64,000 inmates in 5 years — Official — Africa Links 24

Nigerian Correctional Service, NCoS, says no fewer than 64,000 inmates received non-custodial sentences between 2021 and 2025.

The Controller of Corrections in charge of Probation, Ponyaka Nandang, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja during the third public hearing of the Independent Investigative Panel on Alleged Corruption and Other Violations against the correctional service.

The News Agency of Nigeria reports that non-custodial sentences—alternatives to imprisonment—include…