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The Prison Officers’ Association is chastising acting Prisons Commissioner Carlos Corraspe for what they call his continued silence during the ongoing State of Emergency, saying morale among officers is extremely low.
In a Facebook post, the Association said it had been nine days since the SOE was declared, and yet officers had received no communication from the head of the Prison Service. “Your silence is deafening, sir,” it said.
The Association also took aim at what it described as “sensational claims” being made about life behind bars, particularly the suggestion that a prisoner at the Maximum Security Prison had access to a 65-inch television.
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