{"id":312887,"date":"2023-11-29T16:34:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=312887"},"modified":"2023-11-30T08:45:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T12:45:23","slug":"prison-official-highlights-concerns-at-state-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/prison-official-highlights-concerns-at-state-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison official highlights concerns at state facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_312890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312890\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-312890\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Dominica-State-Prison-file-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Dominica-State-Prison-file-photo.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Dominica-State-Prison-file-photo-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Dominica-State-Prison-file-photo-640x396.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-312890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dominica State Prison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assistant Superintendent of the Dominica State Prison, Handel Joseph said the growing population of mentally ill inmates at the facility continues to be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cThe number of mentally ill inmates at the institution continues to be a challenge for us,\u201d\u00a0 he indicated, speaking recently on the issue at the State Prison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also highlighted ongoing security concerns and the overall effects of a congested system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph reported that there are 46 mentally ill inmates at the prison and broke down the current population as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPresently there are 131 inmates on remand, 23 of these inmates have been on remand for more than three years, with the longest remand period of an inmate being 7 years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFrom the magistrates court 98 males, one female, from the High Court 30 males and one female,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cRemands, 127 males, one female. Trial one male and no females.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph continued, \u201cThat brings us to 258 males and three females, a total of 261.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, he said there are 24 foreign nationals at the state prison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFourteen are Venezuelans, three St Lucians, three from St Maarten, two from Haiti, one from Trinidad and Tobago, one from Italy,\u201d Joseph revealed. \u201cFourteen of these foreign nationals are committed and ten are on remand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Joseph explained that among the prison population, there is no juvenile.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Meanwhile, he stated that unauthorized articles continue to find their way into the prison compound.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPerpetrators cut through the fence to place and send unauthorized articles into the prison compound,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>A new wall is currently under construction at the facility with the aim of mitigating this concern, an effort that is clearly needed amidst the convolution of a heavily weighted system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe hope that when the new fence is completed this practice will cease.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Assistant Superintendent of the Dominica State Prison, Handel Joseph said the growing population of mentally ill inmates at the facility continues to be a challenge. \u00a0\u201cThe number of mentally ill inmates at the institution continues to be a challenge for&#8230;","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":312890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,77,235,285,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-court-law","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-infrastructure","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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