Design And Implementation Of A Prison Management System (A Case Study Of Nigerian Prison System)

Abstract

The Nigerian Prisons are fast becoming an immerse embarrassment and a national scandal; the prisons are largely filled with inmates awaiting trial or charges are yet to be filed against them. The Criminal Justice System of the country is so backlogged that at least /+th of its prison population consists of pretrial detainees rather than convicts. The Nigerian Government has on numerous occasions stated its willingness to reform the Criminal Justice System; despite many commissions and committees recommending reforms, the recommendation has not been implemented. This constitutes part of the need for this research work. The paper based method of information management is observed to be the major part of the sorry state of the Nigerian Prison and after several analysis of the system, a new system was proposed. This computerized based system is designed using the Microsoft ~~ . · Visual Basic 6.0 and Microsoft Access Database; the system would be able to aid easy and fast retrieval of information. It would be able to keep prisoners details, load prisoners pictures, provide accurate details of trial dates and court sessions, provide reports for administrative purposes, store a large number of records and safe keep them for future retrieval.