Decongesting Nigeria’s Prisons: All-Female Lawyers Take the Lead
A group of women lawyers under the Headfort Foundation, a nonprofit organization, is committed to decongesting Nigerian prisons. Nyeche Uche, aged 60, got arrested by Nigeria’s cybercrime fighter, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, for stealing. He spent 13 years and eight months in prison while awaiting trial. It took a church who went for…
