Poor ACJL implementation fuels prison congestion in Benue – Rights groups

From Scholastica Hir Makurdi 
Justice and Rights Initiative (JRI) and the Human Rights Law Service (HURILAWS), have expressed worries over the poor implementation of the Benue State Administration of Criminal Justice Law (ACJL) 2019, seven years after its passage.
According to the rights groups, the poor implementation of the State ACJL 2019 has, among other consequences, continued to worsen congestion in correctional centres and overload magistrate court dockets across the state.
The groups, while expressing these concerns at a briefing in Makurdi on Friday, said despite sustained advocacy and awareness campaigns, critical stakeholders within the criminal justice sector have fai...