Comments on: 1,058 in Camp St jail at end of Sept

By: Dust.

Dust. — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:07:10 +0000

Why is it we can come up with so many brillant ideas and the folks responsible seem to be fine with what’s goin on. Centry old facilities and way of operation still being in use today.I like Charliebrown’s idea. With GT IT’S SLOW BUT SURE. We will get there folks.

By: ONE MINUTE

ONE MINUTE — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:58:03 +0000

Maybe the prison treatment is not as bad as we thought, if it is overcrowded, let’s leave some of the criminal in that situation and hope some good can come from it, at least after the holiday so people can enjoy their Christmas.

By: malaika06

malaika06 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:26:35 +0000

Yes Charlie Brown, the perennial plaster to the festering sore. Build more jails, fancier jails, sophisticated jails, better jails.

I think I read somewhere recently that in the US it costs more to incarcerate someone than to put that same individual through college.

How about building some more schools, properly equipping our security forces and paying them BETTER salaries, among other things?????

By: GT IN Atlanta

GT IN Atlanta — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:43:59 +0000

What is the relevant authority doing about this situation ? it seems not only is the prison overcrowed but there is also an increase in unsloved crimes of various nature, now unless something is done to address this issue we will see the same number of criminals on the street as in the prisons if it is not so already. Crime is on the increase, the judicial system is on detoration, so after the data compilation what next ?

By: Judge

Judge — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:52:33 +0000

I am saying that the lawers are responsible and maybe, some magustrates..But weather an offence is minor or bailable or serious..the magistrate will award bail to people who he or she feels will return to answer the charge made against them after the prosecutor has addressed the court…So your pre-trial liberty is based on background checks..let me define bail quickly ( Bail is a recognicance or bond signed by a duly authorised person to ensure the appearance of an accused at an appionted time and place to answer to the charge made against him or her).

By: can't wait to b in guyana

can't wait to b in guyana — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:24:34 +0000

charlie good point put them in the jungle so there be less option to escape and less visit to them so they wont b family vising often to carryin illict thing for them so the one out there will be dissuavie to go in

By: TheAchiever

TheAchiever — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:23:31 +0000

What about hiring a few good typists and providing them with lap top computers to record court proceedings. At the end of the day the information can be downloaded CDs. Too simple a solution for Guyana or against some obscure, outdated law?

By: can't wait to b in guyana

can't wait to b in guyana — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:21:37 +0000

i agree with u at least the will be a lees percent of jobless people and cases will be look faster

By: stan bishop

stan bishop — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:08:08 +0000

THAT’S A THOUSAND PRISONERS TOO MANY.

By: LINDENBANNA

LINDENBANNA — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:49:28 +0000

Soldier,,,you are so on target….reminds you of New York doesn’t it,,,prisoners are locked up on the layaway plan, you pay your Lawyer and you are on the court register to appear in a speedy fashion, don’t pay and you get put on layaway.

By: amen-ra

amen-ra — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:35:19 +0000

It’s overcrowding and nothing is going to happen, they will just put more in.

By: amen-ra

amen-ra — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:32:28 +0000

in guyana anything goes.

By: paw2180

paw2180 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:53:35 +0000

That’s a job opening right there, hire a typist to put on this information on file , so things can go along more smoothly. in this time we live in they don’t have things up to date? pure slackness

By: Soldier

Soldier — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:49:00 +0000

What ministers and portfolio?????

By: mark simon

mark simon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:37:02 +0000

100 % TRUE

By: mark simon

mark simon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:36:29 +0000

WHAT LEGAL ACTION, WHAT COUNTRY ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT

By: mark simon

mark simon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:34:09 +0000

THEY CANT DUMP ROBBERS THERE WHEN THE JAIL IS FILLED UP WITH WEED SMOKERS AND FOWL THIEVES

By: Charliebrown

Charliebrown — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:16:35 +0000

The first thing that needs to be done is , to dismantle this 100 year old prison building and build a state of the art prison way out somewhere near Orinduke Falls. A prison that can hold about 5000 or more inmates, then we will start seeing some real changes.Number one the criminals will know that if they commit a crime, they will be away in the jungle, isolated from society, and their families cannot come to the corner and shout out their names to drop off all kinds of drugs and other stuff that get in and no one knows how it got there. Then the lawyers know that they will only be making one trip to speak to their clients, this way cases will be processed faster, we would not have these problems.

By: drumup_change

drumup_change — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:36:56 +0000

……..if this is so then this is source of tuberculosis hitting the city……..tb come about through overcrowding …….can stabroek news investigate tb in the georgetown prison …… so that legal action can be taken against roheeeee…..

By: BOND 005

BOND 005 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:49:51 +0000

This situation will continue to happen as long as there are ageable ministers who holds these types of portfolio.

By: Soldier

Soldier — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:26:16 +0000

This is because all the lawers has something to gain from this…each of the top lawers has about 30 to 40 clients in jail and they are the ones causing the delays, some magistrates are willing to close cases quickly but what these lawers do is to take money from each client from different parts of the country and keep asking magistrates for different dates 1 and 2 months apart and keeping the defendants in prison for long periods…Like for instance these lawers tell clients that a PI has to take 2 years…no law in the country tells you that any PI must take 2 years so this is how thet stretch it out…the figures are showing that more than half are on Remand…

By: true guyanese

true guyanese — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:03:38 +0000

the magistrate’s to be blamed for this as they just remanded people who are on minor/bailable offences…and people who commit serious crimes are being placed on bail….they just don’t want to work or lisen to cases the easy thing to get the job done is to put them on remand….

By: Arnold

Arnold — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:18:12 +0000

Let’s hope that all those thieves robbing people, would be caught and dumped there for the Christmas time!

By: SandHurst First

SandHurst First — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:36:02 +0000

whoa…….thats like a sardine tin!!……………..Are you aware that in the court these days, the magistrate have to write down everything that is said because there is not one single typist to type everything that is being said……so the matters/trials take much longer than expected. Mrs. Backer is a lawyer..why can’t she point out this fact to the Parliament so that something can be done??