With mounting complaints about the condition of the East La Penitence lock-ups, where female detainees are forced to sleep on the concrete floor and endure the stench of filthy toilets, women’s rights groups and the local human rights body are urging the relevant authority to rectify the situation.
Red Thread and the women’s arms of both the People’s Progressive Party and People’s National Congress Reform along with the Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) have sounded their concern over the state of the lock-ups, which house female prisoners