Delta State Chief Judge, Justice Marshal Umukoro, has decried the astronomical increase of the number of youths in prison custody, and Remand Hone in the State, noting that it was the resultant effect of decline in moral values in the Society.
The Chief Judge who rounded off the First Quarter of visit to Federal Prison formations in the State at Ogwashi-Uku Prison at the weekend, disclosed that he was shocked to find out that of the 2770 warrants of those awaiting trial examined in the five prison formations and one Remand Hone in the State, 80 percent were inmates who are in the demographic category between 17years old and 32, lamenting that it potent great danger to the future career of our children.
He observed that if parents take proper care of their children, many of them would be removed from the streets, adding that the consequence of abandoning children was that they fall back to the other side of society where the in-thing is crime, warning.