Dear Editor,
Prison overcrowding leads to increased violence, the inability to provide necessary medical care and other essential services, and degrading practices like requiring prisoners to sleep on the floor. The current state of the prison exposes prisoners to dangerous environmental conditions like extreme heat or cold, contaminated food, and a lack of basic sanitation.
Deplorable prison conditions manufacture hardened criminals.
In regard to earlier reports about the prisoners rioting because their drugs and cell phones were taken away, it’s simple. Most, if not all, contraband gets into prisons through the guards and other personnel who work there.
It’s time we had a larger and better prison built away from Georgetown, because having the prison here is a huge security risk for the residents living around the facility.
Yours faithfully,
Orin Phillips
Candidate for A Guyana Nation
Building Corp
Constituency 8
Stabroek/Werk-en-
Rust/Wortmanville
