Sixty young prisoners, convicted for non-violent crimes, will be pardoned beginning today, according to President David Granger, who says attention will be paid to developing training programmes to help reintegrate them back into society.
Granger, during an interview with several reporters at the Ministry of the Presidency yesterday, announced that the amnesty, granted to male and female prisoners from ages 18 to 25 years, will become an annual feature.
“I have specified that persons who have been convicted for crimes of violence will not be