They were so friendly and asked us if we wanted to take our bath in their cells and I was wondering why they were being so nice to us. While the inmates outside were asking us questions, I noticed that some of them were showing special interest in us. We got in there, myself and a police man I met at the State Criminal Investigations Department, SCID, Owerri, with two others who came in that evening. “The feeling I had, immediately I stepped into the prison in Owerri from the court was that of grandeur because of the neat environment of the place with flowers. The 40-year-old suspect who gave a vivid account of the ugly sides of the federal facility appealed for strict anonymity in a no-hold-bared interview with Crime Guard. Luckily, he perfected his bail late last week after a very traumatic period in the prison. He was clamped into Owerri Federal Prisons early this year while awaiting trial for manslaughter. His story was as bizarre as it was shocking.
