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Commissioner of Corrections Edward Lamb has hailed 2015 as a year of standout progress for the prison service, but insists more is to follow in the coming year. Acknowledging that resources remain the biggest challenge in corrections, Colonel Lamb sa...

Julee Smith is considered a hero, of sorts, at Westgate Correctional Facility. About 15 per cent of the inmates suffer from asthma; the nurse recently took a course to better help them out. “In nursing school there was only a chapter or two on asthma...

Ross Furbert had no qualms about coming face to face with the man who opened fire in a busy bar where he and his daughter were enjoying a night out. He remembers the shot ringing out and the terror in the room as he tried to get his daughter out of h...

High-achieving youngsters were given an early Christmas present yesterday thanks to the hard work of a group of prisoners. Six students from schools across the Island received bikes that had been made by inmates Victor Roberts, Phillip Bradshaw, Brit...

Low reoffending rates and prison numbers have prompted the Bermuda Government to explore whether the Prison Farm or the Co-Ed facility should be closed. A thorough review of internal corrections operations will be conducted by Commissioner Eddie Lamb...

The stretched resources of Court Services’ 35-strong team has had to learn to be “creative” in its approach to assessing, treating and managing the Island’s criminals, according to director Gina Hurst-Maybury. The department is responsible for thousa...

Fresh concerns over the shortage of electronic monitoring devices have been raised after it emerged that a defendant who was granted bail has been in prison for two months while he waits for a device to become available. The inmate, who is accused of...

Escaped prison Jamiko Bean was recaptured by police this afternoon. Bean was arrested by officers at a residence near Riddell’s Bay after a brief chase. Police spotted Bean on Middle Road in Southampton on a motorcycle just before 4pm, and gave chase...

An investigation has been launched after a prisoner died at Westgate. The Ministry of National Security confirmed the death this afternoon in a written statement. A ministry spokesperson said: “Tragically an inmate at the Westgate Correctional Facil...

A groundbreaking new initiative that pairs prisoners with victims of crime is helping inmates turn their lives around and victims come to terms with their ordeal. The Sycamore Tree Project has seen 16 prisoners complete the eight-week-long series of ...

The men and women who have suffered at the hands of criminals are perhaps the last kind of visitor you would expect to pass through the succession of bolted doors and corridors of Westgate. But for eight weeks this summer five victims of crime travel...

The Prison Officers Association has become the latest group to throw its support behind Jason Hayward, who is being sued by Government. Mr Hayward, the president of the Bermuda Public Service Union, has become the subject of a government-funded defam...