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| Barbados prison fires kill 1 |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 04/04/2005 |
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Inmates of Barbados' lone prison set fires and battled officers and each other for a second day last Wednesday, leaving one prisoner dead and eight injured, the attorney general said. Twenty-one people were injured in the past two days at Glendairy Prison, located outside the Caribbean island's capital. Last Tuesday, inmates set mattresses ablaze during a fight in the maximum security wing, injuring 13. Some inmates, in cell phone calls last Wednesday, said they were protesting because they had not been given food and water while being kept overnight in the prison yard and were forced to sleep on the bare ground and not under tents as promised, the Voice of Barbados Radio reported. A 39-year-old inmate was shot and killed following an attack on a prison officer, the government said. Barbados authorities said last Wednesday that they had restored order in the prison. "(The prisoners) are still completely within the control of the law enforcement officers," Attorney General Mia Mottley told reporters. The prison currently holds almost 1,000 inmates though it was built for about 350. The U.S. State Department's 2005 report on human rights said that conditions at Glendairy "remained inadequate." |
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