Younger offenders nonetheless jailed with grownup inmates

Cayman News Service

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HMP Northward

(CNS): A new report by the Cayman Islands Independent Monitoring Board (CIIMB), which was established to observe the conditions and treatment of inmates within the local prison system, has noted that Cayman is still housing juvenile offenders alongside adult prisoners, in some cases with some of the most dangerous and volatile serving time in HMP Northward. In its second report since it was established, the board of volunteers detailed numerous problems in the prison, much of it due to the well-documented terrible condition of the current prison estate.

But the comprehensive report brings into stark focus some of the significant challenges Cayman has meeting its human rights obligations without a fit-for-purpose facility, given how many people the criminal justice system locks up each year.

“As it stands now juvenile offenders are housed in the same building with adult prisoners, in a separate annex of the building, however this doesn’t always…

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