... Achievements of correctional service departments across the Caribbean
Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, Rudyard Spencer, highlighted some of the achievements of some of the correctional service departments across the Caribbean region:
They included:
The work of Cayman’s Department of Community Rehabilitation, where they expanded the gender-specific services they offer to female offenders, and the establishment of the Female Empowerment Services Project
The partnership between Jamaica and the Organization of American States with the project, ‘A New Path: Promoting a Healthy Environment and Productive Alternatives for Juvenile Remandees and Offenders’
The ‘Agricultural Self-Sufficiency Programme’, where all correctional institutions in Jamaica, except the Horizon Adult Remand Centre, are engaged in agricultural production.
The four-day conference will bring together delegates from 22 member countries across the region, representatives from the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA) and guests from the Netherlands, United States and Namibia.
Some of the topics to be discussed include; Leadership essentials for transforming prisons and correctional services; Radicalisation in prisons; and Building intelligence: opportunities and challenges of drone technology for Caribbean-based correctional facilities.
The conference is being held under the theme ‘Transforming Prisons and Correctional Services for Regional Development’.