Cramped cells, security concerns

Even with plans to transfer 200 inmates from the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre to another facility by the end of the month, the Kingston-based prison remained overcrowded as at Wednesday, November 11, with 1,559 inmates – nearly twice its capacity. The more than century-old facility was built to accommodate about 850 inmates. Duane Smith, a member of Parliament’s Internal and External Affairs Committee, yesterday raised questions about the conditions in which inmates are living at the Tower Street and St Catherine correctional centres.