Prisons Decarlo News Today

The investigation into the escape of an inmate from Dodds Prison is at an advanced stage, says acting Superintendent of Prisons DeCarlo Payne. The prison boss was speaking to the Daily Nation yesterday after a quarterly service at the Western Light Church of the Nazarene in Oxnards, St James. “It is an ongoing investigation and it is at an advanced stage, but I cannot comment further. In time the Minister …

The prison population in Barbados has dropped significantly since the move to the newer Dodds Prison in 2007. Prior to that, the inmates numbers hovered around 1 187 at the historic HMP at Glendairy which was subsequently burnt during rioting before a makeshift prison was created at Harrison Point. However, today there are around 769 inmates (743 males and 26 females) at Dodds in St Philip which has a capacity …