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The Department of Corrections welcomed 21 new Corrections Officers to its ranks at a Passing Out Parade. National security minister Wayne Caines joined fellow officers, family and friends at the Westgate Correctional Facility yesterday to celebrate t...

Murals created by Westgate Correctional Facility inmates were installed in the City of Hamilton as part of a continuing beautification project. One inmate, who wished to remain anonymous, said that he and others had been pleased to take part in the ...

Four lawnmowers have been donated to a community service programme for inmates. The Treatment of Offenders Board handed over the machines to national security minister Wayne Caines. They will be used as part of the Department of Corrections’ inmate c...

There are “monsters” living in Bermuda, MPs have been warned. The grim caution came as the House of Assembly debated whether the island needed a public register of sex offenders. Renée Ming, who headed a bipartisan Joint Select Committee on the manag...

“Enhanced security protocols” have uncovered contraband in the island’s Corrections facilities, according to Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security. Mr Caines added that a Corrections officer had sustained minor injuries as a result of a rec...

The Department of Corrections is to begin an internal security review of prisons, Wayne Caines told MPs in the House of Assembly last Friday. Mr Caines, the Minister of National Security, said he would also meet representatives of the Prison Officers...

Security has been stepped up at Westgate prison after an attempted breach of the perimeter fence. Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said on Thursday that inmates involved in the attempt would be penalised. He said: “The Ministry can co...

Fifteen new officers will start work with the Department of Corrections today, the Minister of National Security revealed. Wayne Caines made the announcement yesterday as he acknowledged concerns about safety and a lack of manpower that were raised b...

A women’s charity raised concerns yesterday after it was announced a dangerous sexual predator is to be housed at the Co-Educational facility. Part of the St George’s jail for women and younger offenders has been redesignated as a hospital to block t...

Part of the Co-Educational Facility has been redesignated as a hospital to block the release of a dangerous child sex offender. Merrick Seaman is to be held at the St George’s jail, which holds women prisoners and men aged 20 and younger, under the ...

Bermuda will be able to send prison inmates with mental disorders overseas for treatment under legislation approved last week in Parliament. Health minister Kim Wilson told MPs the legislation would help persons requiring “special psychiatric treatme...

A violence reduction programme is under way in Bermuda’s prisons, national security minister Wayne Caines told Parliament this morning. The programme has been completed by six inmates in Westgate, Mr Caines said. The four- to six-month programme is b...