Jamaica Gleaner Commentary published: Wednesday | September 3, 2003
A grave security risk
MAJOR RICHARD Reese, recently-appointed head of the correctional service, has drawn public attention to the overcrowding in Jamaica's prisons, now with a population of 4,100 inmates in facilities designed for 2,700.
THE ONGOING fight against crime has been a losing encounter. The criminals seem to have the upper hand and our society is no safer now than five, ten or twenty years ago. - Delroy Chuck
