Tuesday, March 19
Today started early with a bit of a commute to meet and greet the Controller of all the Prisons in the Eket (State) Prison system. Mr. Julius Ezezu, the Controller of Corrections, whose office is in the Federal Secretariat of Akwa Ibom State, is a Christian, and appreciated our work and approach to the “reformation” (transformation to us) of all his inmates. He was very “savvy” and had a staff of
four junior officers as well as a Press Representative that emceed the meeting. Nigeria mirrors what Chase saw in Ethiopia, in that the prison environment, while being “hard” prison, has the goal of reforming the inmates, and while prison is the hard punishment part, the attitude of the officials and correction staff is to rehabilitate the individual inmate. It does not include the “punishment” attitude in American prisons, and Chase views it as more effective.
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