Relatives frustrated over prisoner processing at Lusignan

While others stood in line, others opted to sit on the side of the road as the prisoner verification process at Lusignan went on.

Relatives of inmates relocated to the Lusignan Prison after Sunday’s Camp Street jail fire yesterday bemoaned what they said was the slothfulness of the prisons authority in providing them with information.

When Stabroek News visited the facility yesterday midday, scores of persons were seen standing in the blistering sun awaiting word from prison wardens on whether their relatives had been accounted for and a status update on their location.

Not long after, a female prison officer in the presence of several other prison officials started reading  aloud the names of prisoners who had been transferred to the Timehri, New Amsterdam and Mazaruni Prisons.

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