NURSE THE NURSING: A CROSS EXAMINATION OF CARE SYSTEM AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WARDRESS AND FEMALE INMATES IN LAGOS AND OGUN STATES CORRECTIONAL SERVICES

Abstract

Globally the UNODC Policy 2011 recognizes the situation and need to promote the wellbeing of the inmates in the correctional facilities. The situation of correctional facilities in African precisely in Nigeria is considered as worsen in promoting the wellbeing of inmates. Thus, once the situation negate improvement, it will further degenerated to other social vices  such  as recidivism, trauma, civil unrest, physical assault, delinquent or criminality in the larger society. Extant publications were reviewed and Chivalry feminist radical theory.. Mixed method and descriptive method of data collection were adopted. Samples were collected from female inmates in Lagos (Kirikiri) and Ogun State (Ibara and Ijebu-Ode) correctional facilities. The sample size was drawn from Yemane Taro formula was adopted and summed to 399 but after screening of quantitative data 250 was found useful for the analysis while 24 participants were interviewed for the qualitative data collection (6 key informant interviews among correctional wardresses while 18 in-depth interviews were conducted among female inmates to include nursing and pregnant inmates in the selected facilities). Several factors were held responsible for female criminality such as greed, Covetousness, poverty, Unemployment. Numerous challenges were faced by nursing mothers which are poor feeding system, lack of proper bonding with children and attitudinal problem of the wardress while the quantitative analysis shows that there is a significant difference in the effect of nursing mothers’ imprisonment on their children across the three correctional facilities which shows calculated mean of between groups and within groups at 31.015 and 13.374 respectively while the F-statistic is (F) = 2.319. (DF) = 4 and the p-value = 0.058. It is therefore recommended that the Nigerian government needs to properly funds the corrections and periodically train the wardresses on the relevance of social work and services to humanity