The Editor,
Barely hours after my first-hand experience from the Liberia’s maximum security prison known as south beach or Monrovia central prison Chief Justice Francis Korkpor visited the prison for an assessment to know more about the inmates activities which now inform him of the numeral problems facing the prison that was erected for about 300 inmates but now play host to 1,000 plus and still counting prisoners!
Chief Justice Korkpor’s visit has given him a clearer picture as to the causes of the over crowdedness of the prison as the result of Magistrates and Judges sending individual or group of individuals that has no criminal records who committed minor civil offences that they the (Judges or Magistrates) could use their judgments to allow the accused to walk away on bail and the rest.
As a onetime insider who spend closed to 48 hours with inmates and prison authorities definitely concord with the concerns raised by his highness Justice Korkpor who lamented that the provision of the law should be used by its appropriate actors before incarcerating defendants!
Noutoua J. Wandah,
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