Executive Director for human rights group Stand Up for Jamaica Maria Carla Gullotta wants legislative changes to reverse the practice of detaining persons assessed with serious mental illnesses in correctional facilities. Speaking at the launch of.
Dozens of Jamaicans took to the streets of downtown Kingston yesterday in protest against the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Middle East, where hundreds of Palestinians have lost their lives and millions more displaced. Dubbed ‘.
Several inmates at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre have been equipped with a marketable skill in entertainment business to enable them to become productive citizens when they return to society, and reduce the chances of them going back.
OUR actions have consequences some of which can end up leaving us worse off.
A reminder if any was needed came this week from legislators on both sides of the Parliament. They were express.
LEGISLATORS are concerned about the impact higher minimum sentences for murder will have on the country's two high-security prisons St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre and the Tower Street Ad.