The Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee, a judicial body set up essentially to decongest correctional centres, has freed 87 inmates.
The 87 were picked from four correctional centres in the latest visits to correctional centres by the committee which is led by the state Chief Judge, Justice Hafsat Abdulrahman.
The committee reviewed 81 convicted cases downward and admitted six awaiting inmates to bail in the latest exercise which took the committee to the Medium Security Custodial centres in Mayo-Belwa, in Jada, in Sintali Kojoli Farm Centre, and in Ganye, all in the southern zone of the state.
The reviewed cases largely involved theft, attempted crime, breach of trust, unlawful possession of dangerous arms, among other civil cases.
The Jail Delivery Committee chairman counselled the beneficiaries to desist from behaviours that could land them in trouble as the law may henceforth take its full course without recourse to tempering justice with mercy.
