According to recent prison statistics, almost one in every 12 persons at Her Majesty’s Prisons is mentally ill.
New Superintendent of Prisons Timothy Hazelwood, who officially took up this position on December 14th, presented the prison status on Monday, December 21st, at the end of the High Court assizes.
At the end of his report, the Superintendent informed Justice Brian Cottle, the prosecutors, the defence counsel, the Commissioner of Police, high ranking members of the Force and others, about the health condition of the prisoners.
He said that of a total population of 418 prisoners, 36 are mentally ill. The number of known hepatitis cases is six, the number of known diabetics is three; known asthmatics, four; epileptics number four, and there are two persons who are HIV positive.
