Nigeria · Catalogue record
Prison admissions by length of sentence
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Number of new admissions into Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) custodial centres, broken down by length of imprisonment term and by sex, reported annually, 2017-2024. Counts intake events (a flow), not the standing inmate population. Source: Statistics Unit, NCoS.
Historical data
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Record details
- Subject
- Justice & Security
- Provider
- National Bureau of Statistics
- Licence
- NBS Terms of Use — written agreement pending (Tier C posture)
- Coverage
- 2017–2024
- Observations
- 144
- Series type
- TS
- Source record
- Catalog 177
"Prison admissions by length of sentence", NCoS via NBS, Nigerian Correctional Service Report, ref. NGA-NBS-NCOS. Catalogued by Prism, https://prism-portal-sooty.vercel.app/statistics/nbs-jsec-ncos-admissions-by-term-nga.
Source publications catalogued by Prism; 2024.