More witnesses accuse deputy director of abandoning prisoners to fire

Carl Browne

 

Two more Camp Street prisoners yesterday pointed fingers at Deputy Prisons Director Gladwin Samuels as being culpable for the deaths of 17 inmates who perished after the fire at the prison last month.

Inmates Carl Browne and Roy Jacobs, both testifying before the Commission of Inquiry into the men’s deaths, detailed actions that they say were taken by Samuels on the morning of March 3rd, when the fire was lit in the Capital A dorm at the prison.

The prisoners who have testified so far have said that an altercation between a task force that was carrying out a search