Government is looking to implement recommendations made in the Prison Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report at the earliest opportunity but this will depend largely on when they are discussed at the level of Cabinet.
This is according to Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan who made it clear that the issues surrounding the prison system are of importance.
The CoI report, which was delivered to President David Granger last month, made dozens of recommendations touching every facet affecting the smooth functioning of the prison system. Chief among them are the creation of a High Level Committee to deal, in part, with overcrowding and the immediate increase of staff. These two issues were prominent during the inquiry which was set up to probe the disturbances and resulting deaths of 17 prisoners at the Camp Street Prison on March 3, 2016.