What's really going on? Minister Duncan has been proudly parading around his grand ideas, challenging anyone to question their feasibility and relevance but at the same time, his prison seems to need help itself.
It was shocking to hear that only last year, the Governor was handed a 'very bad report' by the European Committee for Prevention and Torture (CPT), on the state of our Prison and Detention facilities. What was done since? I'm pretty sure the report must have mentioned the deplorable conditions at the kitchen of the Pointe Blanche Prison. Why didn't the Minister react then? Maybe he forgot that the Health Inspectorate whom he made Extraordinary police have a job to do and will do that job no matter who is in their way.
What about the opinion article of the Inmates Association? Did that just slip under everybody's noses? The prisoners clearly detailed that they were NOT being treated with the same standards as other prisoners in the free world. Expensive prices in the canteen, being denied early release because of nationality, not being released on their official release dates because many unlawful excuses, overcrowding are just some of the issues the Inmates association mentioned in their release on January 14th this year. The inmates claimed that Minister Duncan policies aim to keep the prisoners locked up in negativity for financial reasons, the approximately ANG 36,000 per day, the ministry receives for the 180 prisoners.
Now with all that, you can't even keep your kitchen clean? #sxmmovement
Soualiga Social Movement
