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Camp Street Prison ablution area collapses… destroys fence
Residents in the immediate environs of the Camp Street Prison on Durban Street were sent scurrying for a place to secure themselves, last evening, after what they described as a scary experience that reminded them of the 2002 jail break.
Just after 19:30 hours last night, a thunderous crash rocked the prison compound and the nearby homes. It turned out to be the collapse of a concrete structure that housed an ablution area in the south eastern section of the
Security officers examine the gaping hole created in the Camp street Prison fence last evening.
Camp Street prison.
In the wake of its collapse the concrete structure attached to the section of the prison that houses ‘condemned’ prisoners who are reportedly facing the death sentence, also dislodged a section of the prison fence leaving a gaping hole big enough for persons to enter and exit the prison compound at will.
From their cells the prisoners shouted, ‘“London Bridge is falling down, ayeo gonna let we out now!” as armed guards and plainclothes ranks from the prison service and the Guyana Police Force stood guard.
“When the thing fall the whole place shake up and everybody scatter because the jail men start hollering for freedom when it fall,” one witness recalled.
Describing the experience one woman who lives at Lot 13 D’Urban Street said, “I thought was earthquake. And the prisoners started shouting freedom at last… Seriously the whole place started to shake up.”
The fallen section left parts of two floors exposed to the elements for passersby to see into a section of the prison.
Shouts of “Y’all gonna get we out of here or what?” caused one resident to declare, “This is proof that the prison got to move… That thing only build up the other day.”
“Me whole house vibrate and I am the third house in the yard. I think was the prisoners getting away so when I hear the noise I called me children inside and I make dem lock up cause I didn’t want no prisoner run in by me,” said Deon Frazer who has been a neighbour to the prison since the 1990s.
Arlene Meyers another neighbour said, “It (the trestle) leaning a little while now.”
Another person at the scene said, “They need to move this place but instead they just building and building. If prisoners were in the yard they would ah get away through that hole and was madness in this city.”
“All the money they spend they could ah build the water tank properly but instead is a set of substandard work. just showing how the contractor con them and put people at risk,” opined one passerby.
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