They include inmates who have been awaiting trial for minor offences since 2010, as well as others who could not meet their bail condition and have stopped appearing in court.
The prisoners were released as a mark of goodwill by the government for the celebration of Rivers State at fifty.
The gesture was extended to the inmates by the State Chief Judge, Justice ADAMMA IYAYI-LAMIKANRA during a special court session at the prison.
In her address; Justice LAMIKANRA said the jail delivery exercise was in accordance with provisions of the Criminal Justice Law of Nigeria.
Justice LAMINKANRA said those were pardoned had remorse while in prison custody, just as she promised to carry out periodic release of inmates to decongest the prison.
The Chief Judge charged the freed inmates to ensure that they do not commit crimes that could see them return to prison, but to engage in meaningful activities that would the society to trust them again.
Earlier in his welcome address, the Comptroller of Prison in Rivers State, LOVEDAY OMU, said the major problem in the facility is the influx of awaiting trial inmates.
It may interest you to note that the Port Harcourt Prison was built for eight hundred and four inmates, but currently houses close to four thousand prisoners.
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