Yusuff Jelili Amuda, Abideen Adeyemi Adewale and Oladokun Nafiu Olaniyi
Cost of maintaining prisoners has become a burden to the national budget in many countries. This has thus resulted to government in most countries to allocate huge amount of resources for the feeding, maintaining prison infrastructures and management cost from time to time to run the prison. This study is therefore aimed at exploring the possibility of prison work regarding the Nigerians inmate in Malaysia. As such, a survey method design to seek the opinion of some Nigerian scholars and non-Nigerian on the issue of engaging the inmates in some productive activities such as road construction and farming is adopted in this study. It is expected that the finding of this study may help in contributing more to the discussion and debates regarding cost reduction of running prisons.