Press Conference at HMP Dodds – Jan. 15, 2021 — VIEW IT HERE …..
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STORY BELOW FIRST APPEARED IN THE NATION NEWS – BARBADOS..
Prison boss Lieutenant-Colonel John Nurse yesterday dismissed claims of a tense environment at Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds and instead saluted the on-the-job officers.
He commended the men and women in the midst of swirling reports about morale being low, threats of lawsuits and claims of prisoners on edge.
He said the mere fact that 70 of the officers who were in quarantine responded to the call of duty under the circumstances of an outbreak at the prison was testimony to the morale at the prison.
Nurse, speaking at a press conference on the premises of the penal institution in St Philip said: “Morale was always high. We were always smiling and getting down to our task. The mere fact that we have some 70 people who responded to the call immediately . . . is testament to that morale.”
Major Cedric Proverbs of the Barbados Defence Force (BDF), who was called to lead the prison for the 15 days while Nurse was in quarantine, said even the prisoners “got it” though some malicious communication went out via social media.
He said the BDF was able to add “psycho-social intervention operatives” into the prison network and even when the sister and the grandmother of two inmates died, what was expected to be a tense period was eased through counselling and talking with inmates. The prisoners were allowed to contact their families, he added.
“But at the end of the day they are human and they think that they want what is best for them and we try to treat them as human,” Proverbs said of the circulating social media voice notes claiming ill treatment at the prison. (AC) FROM NATION NEWS….
Minister of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs, Wilfred Abrahams seen updating the public on the developments at Her Majesty Prison (HMP) Dodds.
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Lieutenant Colonel John Nurse is the Superintendent of Prisons of the Barbados Prison Service and has been in this post since 2 October 2001
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Dr. Carl Ward, Public health liaison officer. ( © Photo by David Crichlow — CARIBPIX ) 
Major Cedric Proverbs, of the Barbados Defence Force, addressing yesterday’s press conference. He was called in to lead the prison for the 15 days Superintendent of Prisons Lieutenant Colonel John Nurse was in quarantine.
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Part of Her Majesty’s Prison Dodds. ( © Photo by David Crichlow — CARIBPIX )
Superintendent of Prisons Lieutenant Colonel John Nurse confirmed that 26 people were due to be released in January.
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mani i cant hear about my brother up to now
mani — wen ya call d prison d phone jus ringing
mani ———ppl got family up there and dont even know if dem positive r not
Valdne Holder —– 240 and climbing
