The Agodi Prisons in Ibadan , Oyo State has no fewer than 1,226 inmates but originally, the facility was designed to accommodate 390 inmates, the Controller in charge, Comptroller , Akinrojumu Tosin says.
Tosin disclosed on Tuesday, at the Liberty Chapel hall of the Agodi , in his welcome address to the Oyo state Chief Judge Munta Abimbola
The CJ is currently on a prison visitation to exercise his powers to release inmates and aid prison decongestions.
The Comptroller in the remarks noted that the Prison Service has been doing a lot to help curtail crisis and spread of epidemic in the prisons, urging the CJ to help facilitate the decongestion of the prison from time to time.
The CJ in his remarks noted that at least 1,041 inmates are awaiting trial.
The figure he added included 11 female inmates.
Meanwhile, about five inmates have been discharged and acquitted after it was discovered that the conditions of the continuous incarceration were not legal
Over two hundred cases of inmates are been presented before the CJ who led other top judicial officials, prosecutors, officials of the Nigerian Bar Association, representatives of the state Attorney General, Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) among other NGOs in an ongoing decongestion exercise.
