In Nigeria, despite changes in the political situation from years of military rule to democratic rule, there are still huge problems in prison conditions, the general protection of human rights, liberty and system of administration of criminal justice. Criminal suspects and in most cases innocent ones, are arrested by the police, detained for days at the police station,   then charged to court and remanded in prison custody for years without trial   and without information about their detention   getting to lawyers or family members.   This is made possible in part as a result of the absence of quick   ways of accessing   information and news on   criminal suspects arrested by the police as well as the absence of quick legal aid services for indigent criminal suspectsMy proposed project is a legal aid intervention strategy which will employ the use of   mobile telephone text messages and calls  by  a network of   para legals to connect lawyers    to provide free legal services to indigent criminal defendants in their communities in Nigeria. The project teams will be provided with mobile telephone handsets and   will visit the police stations, courts and prisons on a daily basis.   While in those places their attention will be drawn to any criminal suspect brought to those places and information relating to his or her offence and circumstances of arrest will be taken from the suspect and immediately transmitted through telephone and SMS to legal aid lawyers working under the project, who would in turn quickly arrive to offer legal aid to the suspect. The project therefore aims at using digital media to put in place, a sustainable early legal aid strategy   that will improve   the way news and information about criminal defendants are transmitted to families and legal aid lawyers to prevent unlawful detention and long prison detention