THE EDITOR, Madam:
Some time ago the People's National Party (PNP) government promised they would be building a state-of-the-art prison that would solve the overcrowding problem in our correctional institutions and make rehabilitation of prisoners a more meaningful venture for the betterment of the prisoners and the wider Jamaican community.
Since this announcement was made, a few years have passed and I am yet to see one stone set upon another for this prison edifice. Now I am using this medium to call on the Government to say if the construction of this prison is on the agenda because I notice there was no mention of it in the budget debates.
I also want to implore the black male population of this island to vouch for the establishment of this prison because we are all at risk of being incarcerated sometime or the other for we are reckoned among the transgressors.
As Claude Mckay said in the poem If We Must Die, "If we must die let us not die like hogs hunted and penned in an inglorious spot."
I am, etc.,
ALLAN MARTIN
Namibia
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