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TRINIDAD’S prisons have evolved into “call centres” for criminal activity, with gang leaders and other “shot callers” regularly ordering murder and extortion from within their cells while still maintaining control

Acting Commissioner of Prisons Deopersad Ramoutar condemning what he described as “the brutal attempted assassination of Deputy Commissioner of Prisons (Ag.), Mr. Sherwin Bruce, by unknown assailants on Wednesday morning.

There are authorised phone lines for inmates in prisons throughout the country, and with jammers in use, the lives of prison officers may be under threat.

A HIGH COURT judge has refused to set aside an injunction which prevents the Commissioner of Prisons from transferring two Muslim prison officers who have complained of a policy barring them from wearing beards.

DEBBIE JACOB WHEN THE news popped up on my computer that the High Court had found Donnell Inniss not guilty of murder, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief that an unjustified long wait for freedom was over. Inniss, one of my former students in Port of Spain Prison, spent 13 years and six months

It all felt like a nightmare – except the story Donnell Inniss describes is common for many young men in this country who are charged for murder, tossed into prison and forgotten for over a decade as remanded inmates. Inniss, 23, from East Port of Spain, was charged for the murder of Ronald Ettienne who

On Tuesday, Justice Carol Gobin wrote to the manager of the Judiciary’s protocol and information unit, Carl Francis, about her concerns over the Judiciary’s statement sent out on the weekend.

THE voices of inmates filled the Port of Spain Prison's courtyard on Friday morning as they joined members of the Spiritual Shouter Baptist community in joyful songs of praise during the Shouter Baptist Liberation celebration.

The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.

“Akili Charles, may God rest his soul, will not be forgotten. He opened doors for inmates,” said an inmate I’ll call Charles Gear. January 11 marked the 12th year Gear had been in remand on murder charges, but he is now out of prison on bail. Gear used the ground breaking law that allows murder-accused