Assistant-Comptroller of Prisons in charge of Zone Six, ALLOY UCHENWA disclosed this on his visit to Rivers state in an interview with correspondent VICTOR EZEAMA.
UCHENWA said the Federal government has approved the rehabilitation of prisons including the building of more detention quarters in a bid to decongest the prisons.
He also said the courts must be proactive in trying cases before them to help decongest the prisons within Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Owerri and Rivers states.
ALLOY UCHENWA is the Assistant-Comptroller of Prisons in charge of Zone Six.
