Office-in-Charge unfit to run Camp St jail, former inmate testifies

Dubbing the deaths of 17 prisoners in a fire last month a “massacre,” a former Camp Street prison inmate yesterday testified that the officer-in-charge (OC) of the jail, Kevin Pilgrim, was not fit to run the facility.

During his testimony at the continuing Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the deaths, Patrick Narine stated that Director of Prisons Carl Graham and other named senior officials are men he considers capable of running the prison.

He related that after the disturbances at the Camp Street jail, including the March 3rd fire, he saw Graham,