Tears, Joy as Lagos Chief judge frees 209 underage inmates

Incensed by the lock up of underage girls and boys in adult prisons with hardened criminals for minor offences, the State Chief Judge, Justice Olufunmilayo Atilade, on Aug. 14, 2017, flung open the prison gates across the state for 209 juvenile offenders out of the scores of disease-ravaged minors trapped in the cells.

Their release was greeted with mixed feelings; tears and joy rented the air as the people let loose their pent-up emotions.

What she saw in the prisons enveloped by foul air and smell smacks of pity and indignation.