Prison authorities have confirmed that the number of escapees from Sunday’s Camp Street Prison breakout is six, according to Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan, who yesterday also clarified that a total of 91 inmates—not 300 as earlier reported—have been released
Ramjattan made the disclosures while also announcing plans to today relocate over 500 inmates who continue to be held in a pasture outside of the Lusignan Prison to another walled open area nearby. He said also that two areas are being prepared at the Camp Street Prison site to house them in the long term.
Ramjattan, speaking during a media briefing at his Brickdam office, clarified that 463 of the over 1,000 displaced prisoners formerly housed at the Camp Street Prison have either been relocated to other prisons, granted early releases or released on bail. The others, he said, remain at the Lusignan site, close to where a location outfitted with the
