Most of the weapons found in Saturday’s police raid at the Camp Street Prison were made from debris after the March 3rd riot and fire at the penal facility, Director of Prisons Carl Graham says.
“The instruments found… most are improvised weapons, made from materials from the beds the men were using and other materials accumulated when they had riot and fire, things they would have shaped into those weapons,” Graham told Stabroek News yesterday. It is unclear why this debris was left accessible to the prisoners. In the aftermath of the riot in which 17 prisoners were killed in a fire, there had been reports of wardens being threatened by inmates who wielded various types of weapons. The authorities had played down these reports.
