Ninety high-risk prisoners still at Lusignan pasture

Ninety high-risk prisoners from the gutted Camp Street penitentiary remain in the swampy area near the Lusignan Prison and according to Prison Director (ag) Gladwin Samuels sand filling work will start today to improve the environment.

“Efforts are being made in order to enhance that area in terms of sand filling so that the situation that was previously aired via social media would not be the condition that they are kept under for whatever duration they will be there”, he told reporters during a press conference hosted by the Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan. The situation being referred to was the posting of videos showing inmates chasing animals and slaughtering a cow.