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The Nigeria Prisons operate below several benchmarks including the "United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners" which focused on prisoners´ reformation and rehabilitation. The wellbeing of prisoners in Nigeria is generally below the accepted standards. The country´s high crime rate resulting from political imbroglio, mass unemployment, embezzlement and misappropriation of public fund have left the department of correctional services with massive issue of overcrowding and a lack of inadequate resources, leaving thousands of prison inmates subject to human right violations. This book Information behaviour and socio-psychological wellbeing of prisoners in Nigeria (IBSWPI)". provides an indepth treatment of information behaviour components (information needs, seeking, availability, accessibility and use) and how they influence the socio-psychological wellbeing of prisoners in Nigeria.

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Alarape Asimi A. PhD. is a lecturer in the library and Information Science Department, Adeleke University, Ede Nigeria. Dr. Alarape holds degree of Doctor of philosophy (PhD)and Master´s degree in Information Resources Management in 2012 and 2015 from Babcock University and honours Bachelor´s and Master´s degree from University of Ilorin, Nigeria.

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