{"id":1860,"date":"2023-12-04T14:50:26","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T14:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/?page_id=1860"},"modified":"2024-09-15T17:13:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T17:13:48","slug":"init-prison-reforms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/init-prison-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"INIT &#8211; Prison Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"1860\" class=\"elementor elementor-1860\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d2ad74 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3d2ad74\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-core-v316-plus=\"true\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f23bb23 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f23bb23\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 10-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">PRISON REFORMS<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ca9c2c elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ca9c2c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.20.0 - 10-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>The state of our penal system is in a very deplorable condition. Despite&nbsp;many promises by both JLP and PNP administrations very little has&nbsp;been done to alleviate the problems. Both of our major prisons, built nearly three hundred year ago, house inmates in &nbsp;very terrible&nbsp;conditions. They are over-crowded and lack basic sleeping and&nbsp;bathroom facilities for the inmates. Our lockups are in similar conditions&nbsp;and unlike the prisons where the prisoners are allowed outdoors&nbsp;breaks, the accused persons housed at our lockups are kept confined&nbsp;at all times. Some accused persons spend months in our lockups&nbsp;under these conditions. We need schools, hospitals, roads and we also&nbsp;need more remand centers and a new prison. At all times when the&nbsp;discussion of the need for &nbsp;a new prison and remand centers arises, the&nbsp;argument that this money could be spent on schools hospitals, roads&nbsp;etc always comes up. JAP is committed to the building of a new prison&nbsp;and remand centres to properly housed the penal population and will&nbsp;aggressively seek funding for it in a similar way to which we seek&nbsp;funding for our hospitals schools and roads etc.<br>JAP will seek to have remand centres located at strategic &nbsp;locations all&nbsp;across the island to housed &nbsp;persons who have been remanded by the&nbsp;court. This &nbsp;will be more secure and will free up hundreds of police&nbsp;personnel who are involved in guarding these inmates at police&nbsp;stations. Persons will be housed at our police station only after they&nbsp;have been arrested and before they appear in the court.&nbsp;With the expected decrease in crimes due to initiatives taken and&nbsp; &nbsp;proposed changes in the sentencing options and guidelines, it is&nbsp;expected that there will be a large decrease in the prison population.&nbsp;<br>Sexual offenders will be housed separately &nbsp;and be given the treatment&nbsp;needed with the hope that they will not offend again after they are&nbsp;released. Procedures will also be put in place to ensure that those&nbsp;persons who are sentenced to do hard labour will do hard labour. Programmes&nbsp;to rehabilitate our prisoners will be continued and expanded &nbsp;as much&nbsp;as it is needed. Measures will be put in place to oversee and&nbsp;ensure the proper treatment of all persons held in our penal system.&nbsp;Officials from this entity will visit these penal locations and make certain&nbsp;that proper procedures are being followed. Prisoners will be&nbsp;allowed more visits and be allowed to interact more closely with their immediate family and children. They will also&nbsp;be allowed to make limited phone calls to their family unless they are barred by the court or&nbsp;prison officials for security&nbsp;reasons.&nbsp;Legislation will be look at with a view of releasing some first time,&nbsp;non-violent offender and &nbsp;suitable conditions will be attached to each of&nbsp;those released. &nbsp;The parole system will be reformed to allow victims&nbsp;and their families to testify at parole hearings. Also the victims and&nbsp;witnesses must be notified if and when &nbsp;a person is granted parole. Too&nbsp;often it is only when they meet up on the street that a victim or witness&nbsp;is aware that the person is no longer in prison. A system of properly&nbsp;monitoring parolees who will have to report to parole officers will be put&nbsp;in place so that the authority will know where they are and what they&nbsp;are doing. Also if parolees re-offend they will be returned to prison to&nbsp;continue serving their sentence.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRISON REFORMS The state of our penal system is in a very deplorable condition. Despite&nbsp;many promises by both JLP and PNP administrations very little has&nbsp;been done to alleviate the problems. Both of our major prisons, built nearly three hundred year ago, house inmates in &nbsp;very terrible&nbsp;conditions. They are over-crowded and lack basic sleeping and&nbsp;bathroom facilities &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/init-prison-reforms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">INIT &#8211; Prison Reforms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1860","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1860\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/japjm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}