A senior prison officer Babucarr Jatta has called for the scrapping of one of the country’s largest prisons, the Mile Two Prison.
Jatta gave the call on Tuesday while testifying as eighth witness before the ongoing Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission.
“We have to build a new structure and condemn Mile Two. Mile Two is built in a swamp… I recommend we have satellite prisons,” he told the commission.
Mr Jatta who is the Janjangbureh Prison Commissioner also called for reformation, rehabilitation and reintegration of the prison department saying prison personnel are not enemies to the society, adding that people and the authority have interest in the prison only when there is a jail break.
He added: “They say only uneducated people are in the prison. I feel marginalize… We need to go for the actions. They only have interest in the prison when there is jail break.”
Commissioner Jatta further called on Gambians to come and join the prison department and urged the authority to consider the welfare of the prison personnel.
He further lamented what he called ‘non classification’ of inmates in the country’s prisons while called for the amendment of Gambia’s prison Act as he blamed the National Assembly of nothing talking about act throughout their sittings and urged them to amend it.
