Prisoners at the Camp Street jail last evening set fire to their bedding and pieces of paper in protest at conditions triggering a response by the Joint Services who were in control of the situation up to press time last night.
The fire service quickly quelled the flames of three small fires set by inmates of the Capital Offences building while in their cells some time around 7.30pm. The unrest had started earlier in that building where inmates could be heard chanting “we want justice”, “we fear for we lives” and even “they want to kill we but we gone kill them first.”
The capital offences building holds over 200 inmates and much like the rest of the Camp Street Pri-son is overcrowded. Inmat-es could be heard shouting that they are being denied basic human rights such as a proper meal and even in circumstances where family members bring food, prisoners are not given their meals. They shouted from the
