A statement on Thursday by the state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr Adeniji Kazeem, stated that a total of 320 duplicate case files were received from the police within the period. He said five federal prisons in Lagos State were overstretched with about 5,000 inmates. According to Kazeem, the revelations are in a recent quarterly report of the Lagos Criminal Information System which serves as the databank of all prison inmates in the state. He said a breakdown of the report, which covered activities from June to September 2018, showed that 56 miscellaneous cases (stealing-related offences), 95 sexual-related offences, 79 robbery cases, 48 fatal motor accident and 35 homicide cases were received in the period under review. “The report further revealed that out of the 4,087 total inmates capacity of the five federal prisons in the state, actual prison open out was 9,303, while the total inmates enrolled on the LCIS system, with complete records, including biometrics and photographs as of September 30,2018, was 12,439. “The report indicates that the federal prison facilities in Lagos State are overstretched, while the state government, through the Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy and the Judiciary, is working with the Lagos State Ministry of Justice to get a list of inmates with minor offences for possible consideration,” he added. Also in the report, there are 48 inmates with minor offences who are on the awaiting-trial list for three years and above, as well as 72 juvenile inmates out of which 15 were in the age bracket of 0 to 14 years, and 57 in the age bracket of 15 to 17 years. For inmates charged with domestic and sexual offences, the report showed that the top three offences in the category were defilement (57 per cent), sodomy (22 per cent), and rape (18 per cent).]]>

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