31 PDO detainees released on Thursday

A to­tal of 31 peo­ple held un­der pre­ven­tive de­ten­tion or­ders (PDOs) dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE) were re­leased from three prison fa­cil­i­ties on Thurs­day, ac­cord­ing to se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials.

Sources con­firmed that 29 de­tainees were re­leased from Gold­en Grove Prison in Arou­ca, while one per­son each was re­leased from the Youth Train­ing Cen­tre (YTC) and the Women’s Prison, al­so in Arou­ca.

The re­leas­es came as rel­a­tives of peo­ple de­tained un­der the PDOs gath­ered out­side the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa, hop­ing their loved ones would be freed.