TrinidadExpress: "IN a powerful and passionate maiden presentation which received desk-thumping support from all sides, new United National Congress Senator Verna St Rose-Greaves brought the graphic realities of the prison life into staid, formal setting of the Senate in a manner not done before.
St Rose-Greaves, a social worker, was speaking on the Prison Amendment Bill.
’Mr President, by the clock I see it is 2.47. At this precise time, the prisoners would be now moving to empty their slop buckets left to bubble overnight. The stench may be unbearable to you and I, but so accustomed to them. You would probably see young men put their hands into a plastic bucket to scrub and dislodge faecal matter. You would see prison officers with pain on their faces... These arrangements... are degrading... Grown men and women held in cells... without sanitary facilities, forced to defecate in the presence of fellow prisoners... in buckets, in plastic bags... and on paper to be poured into plastic buckets... And we talk about human rights,’ she said."
St Rose-Greaves, a social worker, was speaking on the Prison Amendment Bill.
’Mr President, by the clock I see it is 2.47. At this precise time, the prisoners would be now moving to empty their slop buckets left to bubble overnight. The stench may be unbearable to you and I, but so accustomed to them. You would probably see young men put their hands into a plastic bucket to scrub and dislodge faecal matter. You would see prison officers with pain on their faces... These arrangements... are degrading... Grown men and women held in cells... without sanitary facilities, forced to defecate in the presence of fellow prisoners... in buckets, in plastic bags... and on paper to be poured into plastic buckets... And we talk about human rights,’ she said."
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