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Covid-19 restrictions have caused increased tensions at the island’s prisons, it was revealed today. Renee Ming, the Minister of National Security, said that the morale and behaviour of inmates had deteriorated because of a block on visits. Ms Ming a...

A convicted sex offender has launched a legal bid to avoid being deported back to his homeland of Jamaica. Brittonie Taylor, released from Westgate last October after serving eight years for a serious sex assault, will ask the Supreme Court today to ...

Every time I speak with or visit a client at Westgate or one of the other prison facilities, I am reminded of the lack of proper rehabilitation this Island has to offer prisoners and members of our community who have committed serious criminal offenc...

The island’s emergency services are plagued by staff shortages, poor buildings and ageing equipment, the national security minister said yesterday. Renee Ming said that overtime pay for police, fire and prison officers was necessary because of staff ...

A man who denied sending threats to the Premier was jailed overnight today after he admitted contacting David Burt despite his bail conditions. Jared Gordon, 31, admitted in Magistrates’ Court that he contacted Mr Burt three times over the past week ...

The Bermuda Government suffered a defeat after prison officers won a Supreme Court battle against changes that required them to make health insurance payments. The Prison Officers Association claimed that its members were exempt from making contribut...

Security breaches at Westgate remained a “grave concern” in the latest annual report on the treatment of offenders, the Minister of National Security said yesterday. Renee Ming told the House of Assembly that there continued to be problems with the ...

Work must be done to improve conditions at the island’s prisons, the latest report from the Parole Board has warned. The Parole Board combined report for 2017 to 2019 said the prisons had deteriorated over the past 30 years as maintenance work had be...

A bid to expand prison libraries has been launched. Renee Ming, the national security minister, said the prison system contained a lot of keen readers who would benefit from donations of new books. Ms Ming said: “The Department of Corrections has qui...

A notice was issued yesterday to inform the public about a sex offender to be released from prison today. Brittonie Lloyd Taylor, 39, will live in Pembroke after he is freed from the Prison Farm in St George’s. He was convicted and jailed for serious...

A former Bermuda resident who was detained in a Czech prison for months over an alleged credit card debt in the Middle East is to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights. Alan Stevenson, who worked in IT at HSBC in Bermuda from the mid t...

The Ombudsman has logged an increased number of complaints about the island’s prison system. The office dealt with 263 complaints last year, with 55 of them to do with the Department of Corrections — almost five times more than any other body. The Be...