The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) condemns the murder of 38-year-old Correctional Officer Shannon Briscoe whose body was discovered this morning in Seaview Gardens after he was reported missing. Commissioner…
Inmates and wards at the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) are set to receive additional psychiatric care, following the completion of training for 17 Correctional Officers and one civilian staff…
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) will benefit from the implementation of an electronic Jail Management System under the Ministry of National Security’s Security Strengthening Project (SSP). The system, valued…
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) will resume non-contact visits in the Adult Institutions effective Monday, March 28, 2022. The resumption follows the withdrawal of the Disaster Risk Management Act…
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is aware of a newspaper report dated Sunday, March 13, 2022 regarding the annual cost to feed inmates at correctional institutions. The report contains…
The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean will provide six scholarships for inmates and Correctional Officers to pursue the Associate Degree in Business Administration valued at more than two million dollars…
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is reporting that that an inmate has been taken to a public hospital following an altercation with a Correctional Officer this morning, February (21)….
The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is reporting that 45 per cent of 123 inmates and wards who sat the 2021 May/June sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC),…
Newly appointed Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security, the Honourable Zavia Mayne today met with the members of the Department of Correctional Services’ Medical Unit to discuss…
Staff members and inmates at the correctional institutions will have access to faster COVID-19 test results following this morning’s handover of more than 500 COVID-19 self-test kits to the Department…
