The COVID-19 health crisis continues to impact the country’s correctional facilities with active cases among staff and inmates and low vaccine take-up. Currently, there are eight active cases of COVID-19 among inmates and five active cases among staff in the...
More and more Correctional Officers have been coming forward to speak out against the alleged corruption that’s been taking place at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS). In calls placed to CVM TV, the warders blame the management of the DCS and the...
There have been no sanctions at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) since Noel Chambers died a year ago. The death of the mentally ill inmate at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre was the topic of much debate. Eighty-one-year-old Noel Chambers...
In this exclusive story, we hear about allegations of corruption, nepotism and cronyism in the nation’s prison management. Two wardens spoke to CVM Live under conditions of anonymity about the growing influence of corrupted members of the Department of...
A Correctional Officer based at the St. Catherine Adult Correctional Centre was stabbed by an inmate earlier yesterday at the facility. The officer identified as 32 year old Jimel Westney later died while undergoing surgery at the Spanish Town Hospital....
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