Assessment of rehabilitation programmes of female inmates in Oko and Sapele Road Correctional Services, Benin City, Nigeria

Abstract

Prison rehabilitation in Nigeria majorly focuses on the reformation and correction of male inmates in the Nigerian correctional services leaving the female inmates to their own fate without little or no rehabilitation programmes for them due to their small population in the correctional facility. This study assessed the rehabilitation programmes on female inmates in Correctional Services/Centres in Benin City. The study adopted the  descriptive survey research design. Using the simple random sampling technique, fifteen (15) and twenty-one (21) female inmates were selected  from Oko and Sapele road correctional services in Benin City, Nigeria. In addition, fourteen (14) social welfare officers were selected, that is eight (8) from Oko and six (6) from Sapele road correctional services respectively, making a total of fifty (50) participants in the study. Given that the study is quantitative, the instrument used for data collection is structured questionnaire, adopting the four-point Likert format. Results showed that female inmates are not properly rehabilitated due to limited or no programmes that has been directed to rehabilitation in the correctional services.