Police & Detention Facilities
JCU conducts outreaches to them to handle their access to justice needs. In those outreaches, inmates in prison and suspects in police custody or other detention facilities are sensitized about their pre-trial and trial rights.
The outreaches are also used to curb long detentions in police custody, identify suspects eligible for police bond (like petty offenders) and identify forgotten prisoners eligible for representation under our Prison Decongestion Programme. In accordance with the rules and procedures, interim remedies like bail or advocating for non-custodial sentences like community service and fines can be applied.
The Prison Decongestion Programme (PDP) initiative is of growing importance since the State Brief Scheme only caters for capital criminal offences. Therefore, the PDP comes in to aid persons with civil matters and other criminal offences, if they cannot afford a lawyer. JCU’s Prison Decongestion Programme contributed to the acquittal of 6.982 inmates in prisons and people in police custody.
Apart from that the cooperation with Police entails:
Call JCU for free legal advice
Mengo: 0800 100 225
Tororo: 0800 100 226
Lira: 0800 100 212
Hoima: 0800 100 213
Jinja: 0800 100 214
Masaka: 0800 100 215 National Coordination Office: 0414 256626
Fort Portal: 0800 100 216
Mubende: 0800 100 217
Mukono: 0800 100 218
Mbale: 0800 100 219
Bundibugyo: 0800 100 223 Kasese: 0800 100 224 Yumbe: 0200 906 833
