Lieutenant Colonel Trevor Pennyfeather, Superintendent of His Majesty’s Prison, is pushing for rehabilitation programs at the facility to become mandatory.
During a recent interview on state media, he highlighted the success of such programs, referencing Mellanson Harrison, a Barbudan convicted of the 1994 Challenger yacht murders, who was granted early release in 2016 after 30 years of incarceration.
Pennyfeather stressed that early release decisions should focus on rehabilitation rather than good behavior alone and has raised this issue with the Attorney General.
He also emphasized the importance of inmates’ mental and spiritual rehabilitation alongside skill development. Harrison’s co-accused, Marvin Joseph, remains in prison.
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These are fair recommendations – there must be a pathway to re-integration. If inmates learn a skill or improve their education, it will give a better chance to be re-integrated into society. And rightfully so, mental and spiritual rehabilitation must be done alongside training.
To just keep them in prison for 20 years and taxpayers feeding them, some of them do not know how to deal with the outside and therefore do not mind going back there (in prison).
We have been talking about this for ages. It’s time to move beyond talk.
Criminals will have that label for life if we do not seriously engage in meaningful prison rehabilitation and restoration. Recent statistics shows that a very high percentage of prisoners are repeat offenders once they are released. This is so because once they serve time in prison, they find it impossible to be productive and get a meaningful job. So the cycle continues…..in and out of prison over and over. The prison is already overcrowded and bursting at the seems and what we are seeing lately is several early releases of hardened criminals just in order to make space for new entrants in to the prison system. We are releasing prisoners without providing them with the necessary rehabilitation, repair, recovery and counseling only for them to go right back to prison.
It is claimed that there is a shortage of people in the constitution industry. Why not have these individuals participate in a learning program while being incarcerated so that upon their release they can be Integrated into the workforce with the National Housing .
So true. I know don’t why we think a man can change all by himself they can’t. U eighter on the devil or God side .N for a man to commit murder n release bc u think he’s acting nice don’t cut it. He will murder again. If some sort of rehabilitation SHOULD Take place physically mentally socially. N most of all SPIRITUAL. CHANGING THERE MINDSET FOR THE WHOLE MAN.SETTING SOMEONE FREE FROM PRISON WITHOUT PROPER REHAB COULD LEAD TO THE COUNTRY DOWN FALL WITH MORE CRIME. 30 YEARS FOR MURDER N WALK FREE. BC OF GOOD BEHAVIOUR IT JUST A MATTER OF TIME BF HE STRIKE AGAIN…STOP PLAYING GOD.LET GOD BE GOD.REHAB THESE GUYS OR WOMEN. BF ANY EARLY RELEASE N LET A GOD FILL PASTOR BE THERE TO HELP ALONG THE WAY. IT WILL TAKE A RENEWING OF A PERSON MIND AND HEART TO SEE CHANGE..N NO NO NO HUMAM BEIGN CAN DO THAT BUT ONLY GOD. GOD AND GOD ALONE.
How about police actually doing their work and not sending innocent people to jail. You put a criminal record on them causing them to find it hard to get decent jobs.
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