GEORGETOWN, Guyana A top official with the Caribbean Community is urging regional governments to improve prison conditions, saying inmates in poor nations are detained in what he considers "dehumanizing conditions."
Edward Greene is an assistant secretary general of the 15-country bloc. He says prisons in Haiti, Guyana and Jamaica suffer from unsanitary conditions and overcrowding, but offered no specifics for how the cash-strapped governments might pay for upgrades.
Greene says regional prisons must offer "an environment to allow for proper rehabilitation," and praised Barbados and Trinidad for building new correctional facilities.
He spoke Monday at the start of a five-day conference for Caribbean police commissioners.