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Mar 10, 2009 News
…after prisoner beats another who rejected sexual advances
Ranks at the New Amsterdam Prison were forced to quell a mini-riot on Sunday, after irate female prisoners smashed windows and doors to protest the beating of one inmate by another over rejected sexual advances.
A police statement said that between 16:00hrs and 16:45hrs on Sunday, a female prisoner who is serving a ten-year sentence for manslaughter made sexual advances towards another female prisoner who is serving a three-year sentence for trafficking in narcotics.
“Her advances were refused, whereupon she began kicking the other prisoner about her body,” the statement added.
“As a result, the other female prisoners became enraged and began to damage windows and doors while demanding that the aggressor be removed from the prison.”
According to the statement, order was quickly restored by the prison officials supported by the police. The accused female prisoner was taken to Georgetown by prison officials, while the victim was admitted a patient at the New Amsterdam Hospital.
The incident comes in the wake of reports of unrest among male inmates at the Georgetown Prison.
Sources within the penitentiary claim that a riot could be brewing at the Camp Street jail over the alleged beating of several inmates at the hands of some prison officers.
They alleged on Sunday that some ranks have developed a new habit of waking inmates in the middle of the night and inflicting severe beatings, leaving many of them suffering various degrees of injuries.
It was also alleged that prison officials have been reluctant to take the injured to seek medical attention at the Georgetown Hospital to prevent the alleged beatings from being exposed.
A reliable source within the main Camp Street Prison told this newspaper that at the moment there are several injured prisoners at the institution.
This newspaper was told that as recent as Friday night an inmate called ‘Red Hat’ suffered a suspected broken leg as a result of being beaten by the officers and he has still not been taken to the hospital for medical attention.
It is alleged that the inmate was fingered in the recent narcotics find in which a prison officer was implicated.
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