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Prison authorities refute GHRA comments about political interference

Dec 29, 2012 News

 

The Guyana Prison Service says that it is subjected by law to the policy directions of the Minister of Home Affairs and enjoys a professional relationship with that Ministry.
GPS officials were at the time responding to the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) for stating that the Prison Administration should be free of political interference.
In a statement released on Thursday, the Guyana Prison Service said that it was particularly upset by the GHRA’s statement that ‘’in order to sustain the Standard Minimum Rules for treatment of Prisoners as the non-negotiable yardstick on which prisons should be administrated, the (GPS) Guyana Prison Service must be allowed to function professionally, free from political monitoring and interference and their repercussions which undermine Guyana Prison Service performance.’’
“First and foremost, it is important to emphasize that the Prisons Administration as a Department under the Ministry of Home Affairs is subjected by law under Chapter 11:01 of the Laws of Guyana to the policy directions of the Minister of Home Affairs,” the statement said.
“The Prisons Directorate is not uncomfortable with those policy directions issued to the Directorate and enjoys a professional relationship with the Ministry of Home Affairs.”
The GPS said that over the past three years, it has improved its delivery of services to its inmate population structurally, administratively and socially.
“These conditions were as a direct result of the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Prison Administration’s concerted efforts to improve the conditions across all prison locations in Guyana in keeping with the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules in the Treatment of Offenders. Additionally, a number of other projects are identified and approved for execution in order to make the Prisons more safe, secured and humane for our inmate population in a sustained and strategic manner.”
“With respect to prisoner Tyrone Rowe, the New Capital Building was designed to separate various categories of our remanded inmate population and those considered to be displaying unusual behavior in fully self-contained and separate units. Prisoner Tyrone Rowe, a High Profile inmate along with a number of other prisoners so classified, is isolated in a special one-man cell unit for security reasons in that Division. His conditions of treatment and accommodation are of a humane, safe and secured nature.”
“It must be pointed out that most of our high profile and special watch inmates are of an untried status hence cannot be transferred to the Mazaruni Prison which has facilities to safely and humanely accommodate such prisoners.”
The Prisons Administration believes that the current direction in which the prison service is developing would result into a modern and respected Prison System in the near future in keeping with our Strategic Development Plan 2010-2020 which sets out a complete plan for the reconstruction and renewal of the Guyana Prison Service.

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