Guyana has a prison population of close to 1800 inmates and an imprisonment rate which is “extremely” alarming and this problem can be addressed urgently via alternative forms of imprisonment, Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels said yesterday.
He was speaking during his presentation at the virtual launch of a Regional Comparative report which focuses on imprisonment in the Caribbean for the period of 2016 to 2019.
The report consists of a study which was done to examine survey data collected from over 3500 inmates from six Caribbean countries – The Bahamas (2016), Barbados (2018), Guyana (2017), Jamaica (2018), Suriname (2018) and Trinidad and Tobago (2018).
