Effectiveness of inmates’ educational programs in Ilorin Remand Home, Nigeria

Abdulaziz Isiaka,Rasheed Shofiu Adewuyi

doi:10.11591/edulearn.v14i4.14981

Abdulaziz Isiaka, Rasheed Shofiu Adewuyi

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https://doi.org/10.11591/edulearn.v14i4.14981

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Abstract

Investigating the effectiveness of inmates’ educational programs was the major focused of this research in Ilorin remand homes, Nigeria. Specifically inmates’ views on effectiveness of vocational and literacy educational program were investigated. This study was descriptive survey.108 inmates were sampled using simple random sampling technique. Two research questions were formulated and a researcher’ designed questionnaires containing10 items in two sections with 4-point rating scale was used for data collection while data collected were analyzed using mean scores and standard deviation. The result showed that most inmates positively acknowledged literacy education in recreational, guidance and counseling, religious and social sciences as highly effective and effective respectively and the result also established that most inmates acknowledged vocational education in fashion designing, laundry/dry-cleaning, catering/home management, metal fabrication and electrical maintenance work as highly effective and effective respectively. It was concluded that literacy and vocational education policy for the inmates should be vigorously pursued and implemented in Ilorin, Nigeria. In addition, government and private organization should invest in inmates’ literacy and vocational education to correct the erroneous impression that under play inmates’ education which leads to their stigmatization at the point of re-entry into the society.

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Nigeria like many other developing countries contends with the issues of youths’ indulgence in criminality
Government and private organization should invest in inmates’ literacy and vocational education to correct the erroneous impression that under play inmates’ education which leads to their stigmatization at the point of re-entry into the society
On how effective are the literacy education programs that available in Ilorin remand home, Nigeria? As shown in Table 1 the inmates view revealed that items 10, 5, and 4 ranked 1st, 2nd and 3rd with mean score of 3.0 which is above the criterion mean of 2.50, it can be deduced that, inmates in remand homes positively acknowledged that learning of sporting and recreational skills, exposure to guidance and counseling services, and religious studies are highly effective

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Nigeria like many other developing countries contends with the issues of youths’ indulgence in criminality This problem often lands and relends the expected future leaders in remand homes and they are thereby addressed as inmates (offenders or reoffenders). The causes of youths involvement in crime are sometimes connected with poor governance, corruption, unemployment, drug addiction, bad peer influence, decaying infrastructural development, stagnant economy, and widespread of poverty that have bedeviled the social life of developing nations [1]. This implies that Nigeria is plagued with poor socio-political environment which does not assist the disadvantaged population to thrive well. Et al [2] opined that instability in family and children exposures to physical, sexual and emotional domestic violence have been associated with delinquent behaviour among youths

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