Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is promis­ing a ma­jor over­haul and re­form of the prison sys­tem, in­clud­ing send­ing in the De­fence Force to mon­i­tor ac­tiv­i­ty in­side and out­side the coun­try’s pris­ons.

Alexan­der re­vealed his plans yes­ter­day, as he said the changes were deemed nec­es­sary af­ter scruti­ny of the in­sti­tu­tions, which have been the sub­ject of se­vere scruti­ny.

Not­ing a dri­ve to im­prove in­fra­struc­ture, se­cu­ri­ty and re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion sys­tems, Alexan­der said, “First of all, you will see a prison from the road­way; you will prob­a­bly be able to see it from the air­port. Be­cause I have in­struct­ed the Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons and his team, I want a clean sur­round­ings. That area must be cleaned and main­tained, the trees cut et cetera. There will al­so be an in­creased pres­ence of both po­lice and army per­son­nel op­er­a­tion-wise in and around the pris­ons.”