Following rumors of mysterious loss of life on the Monrovia Central Prison/South Beach, Justice Minister Frank Musa Dean have confirmed the rejections of inmates to the over-crowdedness of the jail facility.
Minister Dean who the nation’s Acting President within the absent of President George Weah claimed that these being denied admission on the jail have been inmates accused of minor offences which wanted to be handle on the group degree.
“Where no damage was done or nobody was wounded, people arrested on minor charges are to instead be returned to communities and kept under the watch of community leaders and not to be sent the South Beach because of its limited space/capacity,” he stated.
Minister Frank Musa Dean made the assertion yesterday, December 15, 2022 when he spoke with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Liberia’s correspondent, Jonathan Paye-Laleh on reported loss of life of inmates on the jail.
The nation’s Justice Minister who couldn’t affirm nor deny the report additional assured the citizenry of authorities willingness and dedication in addressing the problems of over-crowdedness on the nation’s largest and predominant jail facility.
However, Justice Minister Dean admittance to the over-crowdedness of the jail facility adopted report of the mysterious loss of life of inmates on the South Beach because of the outbreak of an unknown illness on the facility.
Some household sources stated their youngsters and kin loss of life is on the outcome of authorities failure to adequately handle the medical circumstances of these inmates, thereby creating sequence of diseases amongst them.
The household sources that most popular anonymity additionally confirmed that within the final two to 3 weeks, about six folks have died on the facility resulting from sickness, and maintained, “The facility is overcrowded. The facility was initially constructed for lower than 400 folks, however now hosts over a thousand inmates.
Our supply additional disclosed that that the corps of these deceased inmates is taken away by medical vans from the ability to the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, whereas on the similar time said that because of the state of affairs believed to be ensuing from over-crowdedness, the ability can also be refusing to simply accept new inmates forwarded by the courts.
But when contacted, Assistant Justice Minister for Correction and Rehabilitation, Eddie Tarawali denied the allegation in regards to the loss of life toll rising on the Monrovia Central Prison, stating, “That information is untrue but we are aware about the over-crowdedness of the facility.”
Minister Tarawali stated despite the fact that some inmates are in poor health on the facility, inmates have been taking remedies at a mini clinic throughout the Monrovia Central Prison, until when it’s a essential situation earlier than they’re transferred to the John F. Kennedy Medical Center.
“Even in society people die normally and the prison is no exception, the prison is overcrowded, but nobody has died as per my record. When people are sick, a condition that can be handled in the prison, we handle it, we have a mini clinic which deals with mini issues and when it’s critical, we referred them to JFK,” Minister Tarawali maintained.
He additional defined that that some of these diseases being skilled by inmates are rashes, scabies, and different pores and skin infections, whereas others have Malaria which will be dealt with by the mini-clinic.
As a way of de-congesting the ability, Minister Tarawali on the similar time disclosed that the federal government has begun the development of further jail services on the Monrovia Central Prison, including, “Because of overcrowding, the prison has taught not to accept any inmate until they de-congest the facility, so we are working with the court to ensure we can proceed with fast-tracking of Magistrate sitting.”
“There will be a lot, the engineers are here and we are constructing a lot to accommodate more people, and currently, there are over 1,600 plus inmates at the facility when the facility should be hosting 375 inmates,” Minister Tarawala averred.
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