A rift ap­pears to be de­vel­op­ing with­in the Prison Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion, af­ter pres­i­dent Ger­ard Gor­don dis­tanced him­self from a let­ter sent by his gen­er­al sec­re­tary Lester Lo­gie, which is be­lieved to have trig­gered Prison Com­mis­sion­er Car­los Cor­raspe be­ing sent on leave.

Cor­raspe was sent on four months’ leave on Mon­day, af­ter it was re­vealed that Lo­gie had raised the is­sue of his pref­er­en­tial treat­ment of busi­ness­man Do­minic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve, who are cur­rent­ly in­car­cer­at­ed un­der Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion or­ders at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison and the Women’s Prison in Arou­ca, re­spec­tive­ly.

Su­per­in­ten­dent Elvin Scant­er­bury has been cho­sen to act dur­ing Cor­raspe’s ab­sence.