Category: Articles
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CORRECTIONAL DIARY 3 BY BASHIRU OYAHKILOME ADAMU
FROM ADAMU OYAHKILOME BASHIRU CORRECTION DIARY. No one desires to be in jail, we don’t pray for people to go into trouble and land in jail but unfortunately some people’s choices will definitely land them in jail. Some Innocent folks who are victims of the circumstances around them will also land in jail. I believe…
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YELLOW RIBBON CAMPAIGN AGINST STIGMATIZATION OF EX-CONVICTS.
TODAY, DREAM AGAIN JOIN OTHER NGOs, FBOs and CBOs IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE YELLOW RIBBON CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE STIGMATIZATION OF EX-INMATES AND EX-OFFENDERS!!! The whole essence of rehabilitation and reformation within the walls of the correctional centres is to prepare the students (Inmates) towards effective social reintegration, by doing this we curbing recidivism and…
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THE DREAM AGAIN SLOGAN.
NO TO CRIME, YES TO VISION….YES TO VISION AND NO TO CRIME….The slogan: We believe in power of affirmation, and we do believe that there’s a need for us as humans to continuously affirm ourselves in the positive.So we came up with this slogan for our Dream Again Academy students. Our goal for saying this…
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CORRECTIONAL DIARY 2 BY BASHIRU OYAHKILOME ADAMU.
I don’t think I have ever spoken about prison until I started working in the correctional space in 2012. For eight years I have visited few correctional centres in Nigeria where we are working and one in Zimbabwe courtesy of #EconetZim. About 85% of the people in jail are youths, some are poor, some are…
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CORRECTIONAL DIARY 1 BY ADAMU OYAHKILOME BASHIRU.
In our quest to bring reform in the correctional system in our country since 2012, I started from a place called Otukpo in Benue State, I’ll find time to write about Otukpo in another diary but today my focus is on sharing about an inmate that helped me in jail. When I started to follow…