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March 01, 2013
Nottage Suggests More Bail to Address Prison Overcrowding
Minister of National Security Dr. Bernard Nottage yesterday suggested that more inmates receive bail or be given community service instead of being remanded or sentenced in light of the chronic overcrowding at the prison. "What we can do that would be very swift would be to permit...
July 15, 2013
Appeal court suggests Penal Code amendment should be reconsidered
The Court of Appeal has suggested that the government reconsider an amendment to the Penal Code which purports to define a life sentence.
The appellate court highlighted problems created by the 2011 amendment that was designed to remove the uncertainty of a life sentence by defining it as the remainder of an offender's life, in the case of Angelo Poitier, who was sentenced to life for the Octob...
Dr Porter's wife denied bail
July 12, 2013
Dr Porter's wife denied bail
THE wife of former MUHC boss Dr Arthur Porter will remain in a Canadian prison until a preliminary inquiry in September, according to Quebec court Judge Robert Marchi.
According to media reports, former Old Fort Bay resident Pamela Mattock Porter became the first person arrested by the province?s anti-corruption unit to be denied bail...
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