MORE THAN 25 per cent of the inmates at Her Majesty’s Prisons Dodds are repeat offenders.
And in an effort to help cut this rate, Member of Parliament (MP) for Bridgetown, Jeffrey Bostic has called for a reduction in the time for former convicts to have their criminal records expunged.
Speaking to the DAILY NATION in the same week convicted murderer Peter Bradshaw returned to Dodds on remand on drug and firearm charges, Bostic explained that the way the criminal justice system was set up was causing ex-convicts to return to prison.
“We have a number of people from these communities that have had problems with the law and the system of waiting how many ever years to have these things expunged from your record,” he said. (AD)
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