Perceived Effect of Information on Reformation of Prisoners in Ogun State, Nigeria
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: The paper principally focused on perception of prisoners and prison officials on the effect of information on the reformation of prisoners. Using the descriptive and quantitative approach, i.e. questionnaires and visits to the prison yards, the paper established that prisoners do need information for survival while serving sentence but more importantly as a tool for rehabilitation and reformation in preparation for life after prison. Majority of the prisoners surveyed 96 % believe that information is an important tool for reformation. Though it was established that Library is a good source of information to prisoners as stated in international (UN ECOSOC Article 40, 1977) and government policies, the facility was lacking in the two prisons surveyed due to lack of adequate funding and policy of information restriction. Prison managers had to rely on non-governmental organizations (mostly religious bodies) for the provision of reading materials. In order to make information available to prisoners, recommendations ranging from adequate funding, need for professional associations’ intervention like their counterparts in developed countries to the need for public libraries in Nigeria to focus on special groups like prisoners in their information provision activities were made. Key words: Perception; Information; Reformation; Prisoners; Ogun State; Nigeria Resume: Le document se concentre essentiellement sur la perception des detenus et du personnel penitentiaire de l'effet de l'information sur la reforme des prisonniers. En utilisant l'approche descriptive et quantitative, c’est-a-dire des questionnaires et des visites sur les lieux, l’article constate que les prisonniers ont besoin des informations pour la survie en purgeant une peine, mais surtout pour la rehabilitation et la reformation en preparation de la vie apres la prison. La majorite des detenus enquetes, soit 96% estiment que l'information est un outil important pour la reformation. Bien qu'il ait ete constate que la bibliotheque est une bonne source d'information pour les prisonniers comme indique dans les politiques internationales (ONU ECOSOC article 40, 1977) et gouvernementales, il manque des installations dans les cinq prisons enquetes en raison d’un defaut de financement adequat et d’une politique de restriction des informations. Les directeurs de prison ont du compter sur les organisations non gouvernementales (surtout des organismes religieux) pour la provision de materiels de lecture. Afin de rendre l'information accessible aux detenus, des recommandations allant d'un financement adequat, de la necessite d'une intervention des associations professionnelles comme leurs homologues ont dans les pays developpes, a la necessite pour les bibliotheques publiques au Nigeria de se concentrer sur des groupes particuliers comme des prisonniers dans leurs activites d’offrir des informations ont ete faites. Mots cles: perception; information; reforme; prisonniers; Etat d'Ogun; Nigeria
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".