High profile prisoner Collin Jones yesterday morning set fire to a mattress in his cell at the Camp Street Prison and it was the quick action of prison authorities that averted a disaster.
Stabroek News was unable to make contact with prison director Dale Erskine but a senior fire official said that sometime during the morning hours prison authorities spotted the fire and managed to put it out.
The fire official said that the fire service was called but by the time they arrived
