Minister of Home of Affairs Clement Rohee recently told the top brass of the Guyana Police Force that he was concerned about the conditions of some police lock-ups and he singled out the East La Penitence facility.
“Of great concern to me is the condition in which some police lock-ups are being kept. A case in point is the female lock-ups, at the East La Penitence Police Station,” he said in a presentation he made to the Police Officers’ Conference last week. His presentation, which was embargoed for one week, did not, however, indicate the improvements that would be made to the lock-ups. Recently, there have been growing complaints about the condition of the East La Penitence lock-ups, where female detainees are forced to sleep on the concrete floor and endure the stench of filthy toilets.
Red Thread, the Guyana Human Rights Association, and the women’s arms of the People’s Progressive Party and People’s National Congress Reform all sounded their
