CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO STUDY
This requires little or no effort to convince Nigerians that prison in the country is congested. It may however be difficult to convince most Nigerians that prison terms serving any useful purpose such as punishment and reformation prisons may be responsible for the discussion aimed at the international be administration.
The primary purpose of penal establishment is provides a secured human containment for people who are in custody. Rusk (1967) stated that education is a process through which forester in the individual desirable and attitude quite often, the elements of skills, knowledge and its acquisition are right added to give clearer meaning to the concept. Viewed as a process education generally involves the interaction of some educator and the educate. In the process of boost adult education in the prison therefore, the education and criminal justice programme originated at the Paris conference of the international council for adult education (IVAE) in 2002. A number of steps were taken to respond to the interest expressed 1989-1992in Paris. At the world assembly in 2005 a statement of objective and suggested plains of action were developed. These were subsequently approved by the ICAE programme advisory committee. The objectives of programme are as follows, there are four objectives:
1. To introduce, develop and gain acceptance as an educational approach in the field of crime prevention.
2. To persuade national education authorities to take up their natural role in these area:
3. To persuade national government to adopt penal policies which include the following:
a. Every person shall be regarded as having an intrinsic dignity and view himself regardless of his condition.
b. Penal institution shall have as one of their essential purpose at least equal in the development of the individual human prison
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c. To persuade national government to ask the United Nation to adopt an ICAE draft resolution.
d. To amend the substandard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners (IBE, 1988).
Prison cannot finance educational programmes themselves. Hence this was established in prison by the former civilian government of Kano State Late Alhaji Barku Zuwo in 1986 when he was serving seven years jail terms in this research project have decided to discuss in Oko prison Benin City. Furthermore, I also discuss the benefits and constraints of adult education programme obtained in Oko Prison, Benin City, and also have some cite some examples of those prisoners who have actually benefited from these various adult education programme.