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Nigeria’s justice system has problems too numerous to count, awaiting trial behind bars is one of the most pressing. One of my life’s major preoccupations over the past eight months, outside of always complaining about capitalism, inflation and thieving banks, is talking to Nigerians who have been to prison.The journey started in 2021 when, for the first time, I saw public prison records collated by the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) and noticed with some fascination that women made up only 2% of the nationwide prison population — 1,217 inmates out of a total of 64,248 inmates at the time…

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