Life is a journey filled with lessons, hardships, heartaches, joys, celebrations and special moments that will ultimately lead us to our destination, our purpose in life. The road will not always be smooth; in fact, throughout our travels, we will encounter many challenges.

Some of these challenges will test our courage, strengths, weaknesses, and faith. Along the way, we may stumble upon obstacles that will come between the paths that we are destined to take.

In order to follow the right path, we must overcome these obstacles. Sometimes these obstacles are really blessings in disguise, only we don't realize that at the time.

Along our journey we will be confronted with many situations, some will be filled with joy, and some will be filled with heartache. How we react to what we are faced with determines what kind of outcome the rest of our journey through life will be like.

When things don't always go our way, we have two choices in dealing with the situations.

Time stops for no one, and if we allow ourselves to focus on the negative we might miss out on some really amazing things that life has to offer. We can't go back to the past, we can only take the lessons that we have learned and the experiences that we have gained from it and move on. It is because of the heartaches, as well as the hardships, that in the end help to make us a stronger person.

The people that we meet on our journey, are people that we are destined to meet. Everybody comes into our lives for some reason or another and we don't always know their purpose until it is too late. They all play some kind of role. Some may stay for a lifetime; others may only stay for a short while.

It is often the people who stay for only a short time that end up making a lasting impression not only in our lives, but in our hearts as well. Although we may not realize it at the time, they will make a difference and change our lives in a way we never could imagine. To think that one person can have such a profound affect on your life forever is truly a blessing. It is because of these encounters that we learn some of life's best lessons and sometimes we even learn a little bit about ourselves.

People will come and go into our lives quickly, but sometimes we are lucky to meet that one special person that will stay in our hearts forever no matter what. Even though we may not always end up being with that person and they may not always stay in our life for as long as we like, the lessons that we have learned from them and the experiences that we have gained from meeting that person, will stay with us forever.

It's these things that will give us strength to continue on with our journey. We know that we can always look back on those times of our past and know that because of that one individual, we are who we are and we can remember the wonderful moments that we have shared with that person.

Memories are priceless treasures that we can cherish forever in our hearts. They also enables us to continue on with our journey for whatever life has in store for us. Sometimes all it takes is one special person to help us look inside ourselves and find a whole different person that we never knew existed. Our eyes are suddenly opened to a world we never knew existed- a world where time is so precious and moments never seem to last long enough.

Throughout this adventure, people will give you advice and insights on how to live your life but when it all comes down to it, you must always do what you feel is right.

Always follow your heart, and most importantly never have any regrets. Don't hold anything back. Say what you want to say, and do what you want to do, because sometimes we don't get a second chance to say or do what we should have the first time around.

It is often said that what doesn't kill you will make you stronger. It all depends on how one defines the word "strong" It can have different meanings to different people. In this sense, "stronger" means looking back at the person you were and comparing it to the person you have become today. It also means looking deep into your soul and realizing that the person you are today couldn't exist if it weren't for the things that have happened in the past or for the people that you have met.

Everything that happens in our life happens for a reason and sometimes that means we must face heartaches in order to experience joy.

Not all plants are safe for use. Some plants can hold onto probably the most dangerous toxins known.  Below are some of the most deadly plants and their toxins.

WHITE SNAKEROOT(Ageratina altissima)

It contains a poisonous liquor known as trematol. It is found in woods and along streams in lush fields all through the Midwest.

It’s side effect includes; loss of weight and shuddering of the gag and legs. inability to eat, and progressively become more fragile until it becomes difficult to stand. Extra signs might incorporate an odour to the breath and pee, coma and death within two to ten days.

OLEANDER

This is a wonderful plant known for its striking blossoms. It’s botanical name is Nerium oleander. Every part of the plant are toxic and contain deadly cardiovascular glycosides known as oleandrin and neriine. Whenever eaten, it can cause retching, looseness of the bowels, sporadic heartbeat, seizures, trance like state, and death. The poisons are entirely solid, to the point that individuals would become sick subsequent to eating honey made by honey bees that visited the plant. Luckily, fatalities from  it are uncommon, as the plant is exceptionally bitter to taste. 

DEADLY NIGHTSHADE

This is a plant whose botanical name is Atropa belladonna has dull green leaves and glossy dark berries about the size of cherries. It has atropine and scopolamine in its berries, leaves, roots, and steems, and causes loss of motion in the muscles of the body, including the heart. Indeed, even actual contact with the leaves might cause skin irritation.

CASTOR BEAN

This is also know botanically as Ricinus communis is an alluring plant local to Africa. While the processed seeds are the wellspring of castor oil, they normally contain the toxic substance ricin and are destructive in modest quantities. It just takes a couple of seeds to kill a kid and up to eight to kill a grown-up. Ricin works by repressing the combination of proteins inside cells and can cause loose bowels, seizures, vomiting and death.

ROSARY PEA (Abrus precatorius)

They are often use in making jewelries and they contain abrin, an amazingly destructive ribosome-inhibiting protein. While the seeds are not harmful if untouched, seeds that are damaged, broken can be deadly. It just takes 3 micrograms of abrin to kill a grown-up, not exactly the measure of toxic substance in one seed, and it is said that various gems producers got ill or passed on after inadvertently pricking their fingers while working with the seeds. Like ricin, abrin forestalls protein synthesis inside cells and can cause failure of organ in 4 days.

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Taking to his verified Instagram handle Thursday, July 27, 2023, ace Singer, Tha Sheriff, shared a video in which he could be seen vibing, even as he implored fans to stream it.

"Cool vibes now available on all platforms. 

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#thashariffmusic #coolvibes #jaiyemvmt #afrobeats #explore."

As expected, a slew of his followers have since taken to the comments to drop nice words.

Theakdhq, 'Electrifying vibes.'; Debbiebanjo, 'Cool vibes is an actual jam.', among others.

Keywords

Prison, Labour, Inmate, Nigerian.

Introduction

"It makes no sense to put people in prison and not train them to do something constructive. “We must accept the reality that to confine offenders behind walls without trying to change them is an expensive folly with short term benefits winning the battles while losing the war. It is wrong. It is expensive. It is stupid.” (Chief Justice Warren E. Burger 1907 - 1995)

The above statement is one of the numerous advocates of engaging prisoners in one or more activities that can facilitate some kind of training to the prisoners. The size of the prison population globally has been growing continuously at alarming rate and constitutes a huge burden on the government budget. This has equally led to overcrowding problem of the prison. As indicated in a report released in January 2010 by the United Nation Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), California (United States) spent over $48,000 annually to imprison one person, more than four times the tuition cost of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for a California resident (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2013). The report equally stated that, in 1980, California spent more of its state budget on higher education than on prisons, but that had reversed by 2010, with more of state budget going for prisons than for higher education. This clearly point to the growing level of the crime which has also been indicated to cost the United Kingdom about £37,500 in 2008 on each prisoner per year. It is not only the government that bears the cost of maintaining prisoners but equally the society at large. For instance, the United Kingdom-based Centre for Crime and Justice Studies found that, families and wider society spent an estimated amount of £50,000 per prisoner.

Coming to the case of Malaysia, government equally incurred huge expenses on incarceration. It is reported that daily prisoner-related expenses is estimated at RM35 per prisoner which run to RM12,775 being spent on each prisoner per year (Yaacob, 2012). With 40,000 prisoners, this means that the yearly cost of incarcerating these inmates is about RM511 million thus diverting an average of RM42.9 million per month from the national budget. The Table 1 below presents the breakdown of the expenses on prisoner by Malaysian government.

Source: Yaacob (2012)

There have been quite a number of reports about the criminal activities of some Nigerian living in Malaysia which has culminated in a number of arrests. According to a report by daily trust newspaper, Nigerians are on the same platform with Indonesia and Chinese as the top three foreign criminals. As indicated in the newspaper, about 94 Nigerian were arrested in 2009 in relation to crime ranges from fraud, overstay and money laundry. In a similar vein, a report by the sun daily on January 9, 2014 indicated that about 2433 people were arrested during a major swoop across the country to get rid of illegal immigration.

Considering the substantial sum of sum of money spent on annual basis to maintain prisoner, it is necessary to have an alternative method that could help in reducing government expenditures on prisoners which constitute a significant portion of the national budget. Motivated by this, the present study therefore proposes prisoner work as an alternative in which prisoners are engaged to work (construction work or farming). From this, government could be able to recover some of the expenses spent in maintaining them.