Commissioners visit scene of prison fire

Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry Justice James Patterson exits the Camp Street prison after a Commission visit to the facility. (Photo by Keno George)

Although it has been nearly two weeks, the evidence of the fire that claimed the lives of 17 inmates at the Camp Street Prison has not yet been erased.

The members of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 3rd prison fire, interested parties and the media visited the Camp Street prison yesterday and were taken to the scene of the fatal occurrence.

The group congregated just inside the prison, where it was met by Prisons Director Kevin Pilgrim along with two accompanying officers and was escorted past an area labelled “visiting booth,” where inmates stood braced against the mesh watching on. It moved again past a large barbed enclosure, known as the “cage,” where,