The comments attributed to Treatment of Offenders Board chairwoman Marlene B.

Landy in a front page story on November 9 were actually contained in the Board's 1995 report.

More staff, a review of prison rules and workshops for sex offenders were all urgently required for the Prison Service, according to a Government board.

The Treatment of Offenders Board's annual report for 1995 also called for sensitivity or human relations training for officers -- particularly at the Co-Ed Facility and the Prison Farm.

And since a sex offenders programme was unavailable, TOOB chair Marlene B.

Landy said there should be a series of one day workshops of four to five days duration for sex offenders and other violent persons.

A specially trained psychologist or psychiatrist would conduct these workshops.

Although new Health Minister Harry Soares said his top priority is the rehabilitation of inmates and a halfway house, she said the board lamented the lack of a "promised'' sex offenders programme or treatment facility.

Mrs. Landy said the TOOB was hampered by the lack of written Probation Department reports which meant they were given verbal reports for most of the year.