The Mauritius Yellow Pages News - Government Constructs More Prisons

The Mauritius Yellow Pages

The Mauritius Yellow Pages News - Government Constructs More Prisons

Government Constructs More Prisons

February 17, 2001

Posted to the web February 19, 2001

Port Louis, Maurice

Mauritian social security and national solidarity minister Samioullah Lauthan announced the construction of three new prisons in the island to alleviate overcrowding in existing jails. Lauthan told reporters Friday that the new prisons would be built at rose-belle and la chartreuse in the south of the island and at Forbach in the north. He described the situation in Mauritian prisons, currently holding 1723 inmates, as "very bad". He expressed shock at conditions in which young people were detained at the youth rehabilitation centre, saying, "this place is more a prison than a rehabilitation centre." Lauthan said the government obtained the help of amnesty international to review the prison situation, and an expert from the London-based agency is expected in the country on 23 February.

Discuss this subject on our forum

1. Do you think more money should be spent on prisons?

2. Should the money go into Social Education therefore preventing the need of more prisons?

3. If smoking gandia in Mauritius were depenalised would there be less prisoners?

4. Do some of the prisoner actually need psychological help, as opposed to prison, and would that reduce the high level of prisoners in Mauritius?

5. Do you think that a prominent politician in Mauritius should experience one night in Mauritian prison to see what it's really like?

6. Are the prisons as dirty and un-hygienic as one makes out?

7. Has anyone ever been in prison and what is it like?

and of course, anything else you can come up with!

Let us here your views on this forum and start debating.

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