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Act­ing Pris­ons Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe says the shar­ing of re­spon­si­bil­i­ties for the prison sys­tem be­tween Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der and Min­is­ter of Jus­tice De­vesh Ma­haraj will bode well for the ef­fec­tive func­tion­ing of the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.

Cor­raspe made the re­marks one day af­ter the roles and func­tions of dif­fer­ent min­istries were gazetted on Fri­day.

The no­tice out­lined that while Alexan­der would have over­sight for the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice, in­clud­ing prison ser­vice re­form, com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice, re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion and pa­role and pris­on­er man­age­ment, Ma­haraj would be re­spon­si­ble for pro­ba­tion ser­vices, of­fend­er man­age­ment (in­clud­ing the youth re-of­fend­er pro­gramme), re­form and trans­for­ma­tion.