An outside toilet at HMP
As a former inmate of prison in Antigua, more formerly known as 1735, I would like to know this. Why are we not addressing the real issues of the prison — no counselor, a half-ass welfare system, no rehabilitation, UWI courses (but for the same four inmates all the time, who ain’t coming out of 1735 any time soon).
Then society looks at you differently just because you went to jail. What job programs are there for a person who’s released from prison? When I left, we were still having to use bottles and buckets in the cells.
Everyone makes a mistake, some more than others, that doesn’t mean they should be treated like dogs. Let’s talk about the raiding of cells. Just imagine you’re in your dead sleep, a loud bang from the cell door being open, officers with guns, bright flashlights in your face, telling to get out the cell, putting on a cold ass handcuff and foot cuff, standing in a cold passage in sometimes just your boxers and vest, you can’t catch your bearings, trouble sleeping now.
Now welfare. Does this even exist? Well not while I was there. Inmates sleeping on the floor, bed bug infestation (you don’t want to see certain inmates’ skin). Bowls for eating out of being turned back from inmates’ family members (saying not allowed). But inmates should eat out of a cut bottle.
Let’s not mention about the outside toilet for doing your number 2. When I was there, there was no visitation in person, only via zoom, which the Internet wasn’t good at all. If there’s visitation, you get like what 15 mins, and the age limit that can visit you, SMH.
To the head of CBH, you would shut down a restaurant for having 10 roaches, but not 1735, which is Joe’s apartment, some big rodents which walk standing up, bedbugs, you name it 1735 ah breed it.
Let’s not even mention the luxury suite that the British dude is living in at the base, while the Black inmates are living in hell!!!!
In closing, instead of putting all the funds behind security, look at the welfare of the inmates, get a counselor, get a job program for released convicted person’s rehabilitation !!!!!! Let’s break the cycle of in and out of 1735
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A former inmate
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