Approximately $406,727 is spent annually to maintain one prison inmate, Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee told the National Assembly on Thursday.
The minister was responding to a question asked by AFC Leader Raphael Trotman. Rohee submitted a written reply to the question in which he pointed out that the figures were based on statistics available from last year. In December, Rohee had told the National Assembly that at the end of September, there were 1,058 persons incarcerated in the Georgetown Prison. Based on this figure, the government spends an average of $430,317,166 (US$2.1million) a year to maintain the prisoners in the Georgetown Prison only. Guyana has six other prisons, two in Berbice, one at Lusignan, Sibley Hall at Essequibo and one in Mazaruni for which no figures were given. In December, the minister had said that the figure at the end of September represented a decrease in prisoners as of January 31, last year. The minister said too that as at January 31, last year, 1,203 persons were incarcerated on this date including 714 persons who were on remand awaiting trial.
Human rights activists have argued consistently that the Camp Street jail is overcrowded as it was built to house around 800 inmates.
400K per prisoner yeah right and I have a tower in downtown toronto to sell you rohee come and buy it if you can get a visa to canada that is.
Sandhurst u r absolutely right.
With a per capita income of $1200 US a years, how the hell can a prisoner cost the state $20,000 US a year? What is going on here? Is it that to be a prisoner you have more funds allocated to take care of you? An investigation is needed here to ferret out who is actually spending all this money, how, with whom, and how did it all come about to this stage.
You mean $2,000 US, not $20,000. You and maths again. Unless it’s a typo.
SN I know you may be tempted to edit or delete this comment all together but the facts are the facts. We have to have huge hearts and forgive Rohee for this fuzzy math he gave us here for this man never went to school.
He was home schooled according to the late Janet Jagan god bless her soul. So please people excuse the dear minister for he may get his thousands and hundreds mixed up.
You can live forever, typo error.However, I believe you enjoy your new job. SN blog Checker.
Can’t help it. Have a bloodhound nose for figures.