Correctional Homes

The organization has implemented extensive activities in the field of prison inmate care support and getting justice as well as several motivation and moral lessons for inmates to be of well behaviour after leaving a prison.

Along with ensuring human dignity and other basic rights and wellness of persons deprived from liberty, Divine Cares International Outreach (DCIO) would need to contact the guidance, parent or family of any inmate in course of visitation.

Helping the inmate, especially the innocent ones is not an easy task, although is extremely necessary so as to ensure that innocent inmate or inmates do not suffer too long just because of that fact no access to a lawyer due to lack of legal fee, DCIO try as much as possible to get in touch with inmates families or love ones for their support. During the process DCIO spend a lot of money on legal advice fee, logistics, food and medicals.

 

Support DCIO To Prevent Innocent From Suffer For Injustice

Example is case of Akeem in one of the Nigeria courts according to The Guardian- (https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/oct/28/stuck-in-limbo-endless-wait-for-justice-for-those-in-nigerias-prisons). Read below

  • In August 2015, Akeem, a cobbler, says he came across a disturbance on his way home from work.

    Akeem says he was scared by the police presence and ran away, without actually knowing what was going on. But his right leg was hit by a stray bullet – and he was arrested and charged with armed robbery and conspiracy to commit armed robbery, charges he denies. But he has been in a prison cell ever since.

    Akeem’s case is called, and he shuffles into court. His appearance lasts 10 minutes, with the judge adjourning the case to January. By then, Akeem will have spent almost six and a half years in pre-trial detention, without any evidence presented.

  • “The experience is very bad, I don’t know how to say it, but the experience is bad,” he says.

    Akeem’s situation is not unique. In a prison population of almost 70,000, more than 50,000 are awaiting trial, many having spent years on remand.

    “Can you imagine just being picked up out of your day-to-day life without any warning, without a chance to prepare, and potentially not going back to that life for five, six, eight years?” says Megan Chapman, co-director of Justice & Empowerment Initiatives, an NGO providing pro-bono services to Akeem.

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