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over to... ← FROM PAGE 17 will enable prisoners with access to a first-class computer lab, essentially boosting productivity and avoiding recidivism.

“The prison service requires the ability to rehabilitate, reorient the perpetrator and prepare that person for a new beginning when they are released from the system. That can’t be done unless the prison is equipped with the physical hardware and the facilities to allow that type of programmatic development to take place at the institutional level of the prison itself so that the crimes have received international recognition, as Guyana recorded improved rankings in international reports such as the United States’ Department of State International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) inmates can benefit,” the AG explained.

Director of Prisons, Nicklon Elliot, expressed gratitude to the government for its continued support for the betterment of Guyana’s Criminal Justice system.

The Support for the Criminal Justice System Programme enabled the Ministry of Legal Affairs to draft the Restorative Justice Bill, as well as systems put in place for the development of standards, guidelines, and rules of procedure for the implementation of restorative justice in Guyana.

← FROM PAGE 17 and the Transparency International Corruption Index. Further solidifying Guyana’s improved stature on this frontier, the country has been removed from the European Union’s Blacklist on Taxation.