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Sanitisation stations have been set up at Westgate jail to help in the battle against Covid-19, the head of the Prison Officers Association said. Timothy Seon added that the Government had committed to the maintenance of items that will help inmates ...

A fire broke out in one of the cells at Westgate prison this morning. The fire service got a call just after 10am, with four trucks and seven firefighters responding from the Port Royal and Hamilton stations. Corrections officers extinguished the bla...

“Unacceptable” conditions at the Westgate men’s prison will be tackled, the Minister of National Security has vowed. Wayne Caines was speaking after inmates at the West End jail highlighted their complaints to him. Mr Caines told the House of Assembl...

Two inmates on a programme designed to rehabilitate prisoners with drug problems were rushed to hospital with a suspected overdose of fentanyl. A source close to the prison service said the latest incident of drug abuse at the Right Living House last...

A young man’s account of his descent into crime and the hard lessons brought back was unveiled to the public this week. Kellan Lewis, 28, told an audience at the Bermuda National Library on Wednesday night: “The purpose of this book is to bring chang...

An appeal on “some points” of a Supreme Court ruling in favour of the Prison Officers Association against a Labour Disputes Tribunal is to be lodged, the Government said yesterday. Wayne Caines, the Minister of National Security, said that the Govern...

The national security minister said on Friday that he was not sure who had seen a special report on the island’s prison system. Wayne Caines told MPs: “I do not know to whom the report was given. We were given a confidential report ... and we’re loo...

A panel talk tomorrow evening will discuss how to help women in jail, as well as ways to stop them from going to prison in the first place. Jasmine Patterson, a television news anchor and reporter, will moderate the talk, which is titled Women and th...

Dear Sir, This letter is in response to two articles published by The Royal Gazette: “Court victory for prison officers” and a subsequent update, “Prison officers win insurance battle”. First, congratulations to the Prison Officers Association. A har...

Prison officers claimed there was a “narrow-mindedness and short-sightedness” in the Government last night after they won a Supreme Court battle against changes that required them to make health insurance payments. They added that the legal action, w...

A prison officer was injured in an attack by an inmate at Westgate Prison on New Year’s Day, a government representative said last night. A spokesman for the Ministry of National Security said that the officer was assaulted by the inmate while on du...

A sex offender pleaded to be sent to the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute instead of jail after he appeared in court yesterday for breaches of supervision orders. Puisne Judge Charles-Etta Simmons said there was not “sufficient attention or resources ...