Private sector hammers gov’t over ‘slow’ prison reform

While lauding the performance of the security forces during Sunday’s revolt at the Camp Street prison, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday flayed the government for not doing enough to act on the recommendations made after last year’s inquiry into a similar insurrection and called for more information to be made public.

In a statement, the PSC said that it was disappointed that much of the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry into the March 3rd  2016 rising, in which 17 inmates died, were not implemented and monies allocated by the Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Public Security remained unspent.

It urged Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan and his Ministry and the Cabinet