Deputy Prisons Director ordered inmates be locked in burning dorm

Kenneth Griffith

Deputy Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels was once again accused by an inmate as being the authority who passed an instruction for the door to the burning Capital Division at the camp Street prison to be shut on March 3, when 17 prisoners died.

Kenneth Griffith, who is a resident of Capital Block C, located just below the Capital A division, testified yesterday at the Department of Public Service building that he was at the western window and could see smoke coming from