[1] In January 2019, Charles Okah, an inmate serving a life jail term in the prison released a diary of well documented human rights abuses in the prison in a book he wrote.
[2] The document also detailed how prison officials used inmates for cheap labour and carried out forced abortions on women they allegedly impregnated.
The Amnesty report detailed how human rights abuses including sexual abuse of women and children at the Maiduguri Maximum Security Prison and Giwa Barracks detention centre were perpetrated against children held in same cells with adults.
[4] Amnesty interviewed former detainees and a former prison warder who independently confirmed that sexual abuses of children were widespread in the facilities.
Following the reports, some prison officials were arrested but released the next day prosecuting them.