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AN APPRAISAL OF THE CUSTODIAL RIGHTS OF AN OFFENDER IN THE NIGERIAN PENAL SYSTEM

Imprisonment is essentially a form of punishment imposed on the offender by courts or tribunals. However, it is the sentence of imprisonment, and not the treatment accorded in prisons that constitute the punishment. This is so because offenders come to prison not for punishment but as punishment imposed on them by a court of law based on the principles of revenge (ie retribution) or expiation or deterrence or rehabilitation and reformation. Accordingly once the court ensure that an offender receives his just deserts by means of a prison sentence that is neither too short nor too long, having r…