Abstract
The study investigated the inmates on social work intervention in Osun State prisons, Nigeria. The specific objectives of the study identified the age range of the inmates, inmates’ perception towards a societal valued life, level of engagement in skill acquisition and formal education, attitude of government and prison service employees towards inmates’ reformation. The study adopted descriptive research design. The sample consisted of 88 inmates randomly selected from the 880 inmates and eight (8) warders from Ilesa prison yard. The research instrument was a close ended questionnaire and focus group discussion. Data obtained were analysed using percentages and frequency counts. Results showed that inmates’ ages range mostly between 21 and 25 years. Findings also showed inmates perceived they could still live a good and societal acceptable life; the societal services rendered to them were good to an extent that they had positive attitudes towards skill acquisition and formal education; inmates were satisfied with the services rendered by prison workers and welfare provisions from the government. Findings concluded that the inmates believed they could still live an acceptable life during and as an ex-convict. The study recommended that individual inmate could be tailored and encouraged on the need to better their lives in the prison yard and become acceptable and self-reliant ex-convict.
Highlights
Nigeria prison services operate as government agency in Nigeria, with the headquarter of the institution in Abuja
Research Questions What was the age range of the inmates at the prison yard? What were the perceptions of inmates towards societal valued life? What were the perceptions of inmates towards skills acquisition? What were the perceptions of inmates towards formal and literacy education? What were the attitudes of government and prison service employees towards inmates’ welfare?
It indicated that convicted inmates engage themselves in vocational training; formal and literacy education so as to fit in to the society by depending on the knowledge they have acquired in the prison yard for survival
Summary
Nigeria prison services operate as government agency in Nigeria, with the headquarter of the institution in Abuja. It operates prisons and is being supervised by the Ministry of Interior. Laws are made by a society to curb different forms of misbehavior that could be exhibited and experienced by every society, is known for experiencing members committing crime. These offences range from fighting, stealing, killing ,armed robbery, tugery, bulling, cultism, bribery and corruption, money laundering, child trafficking, child abuse, domestic violence, bombing, oil bunkering, kidnapping, illegal protesting, rapping, we have terrorists like; Islamic Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and many others.(Oloruntegbe, 2014)
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