Alternative sentencing urgently needed to ease pressure on jails – Prisons Director

Guyana has a prison population of close to 1800 inmates and an imprisonment rate which is “extremely” alarming and this problem can be addressed urgently via alternative forms of imprisonment, Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels said yesterday.

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