S.O.E. Prisoners Complain about Life at Prison

But some of the men are not pleased with the treatment they received at the Belize Central Prison and today they told News Five that the last ninety days of their lives were hell. They believe that they were unfairly swept up and locked up for three months. Two of them were gainfully employed with children to sustain. Nonetheless, they want to uplift their lives for themselves and their families.

 

Voice of: S.O.E. Prisoner 1

“I spent 90 days for no reason, no charge, nothing. I got my paper, I could send home for my paper. Cell Two da Multi-Max ah deh. Two weeks, they take we out, they talk about riot, they pepper spray all ah wi. When we go da tribunal, nothing deh nuh got pahn yoh. So, weh we di do da prison?”

 

 

 

Voice of: S.O.E. Prisoner 2

“They say we di try start riot. That da when we just come. They want to make an example out of us. So then they just come and say we try di try start riot. They locked down the whole jail and spray we down, one by one. Everybody handcuffed behind. Then, in the tribunal, the police, they tell the tribunal chairman that I da wa gang member, I well known in the streets, all kind of things. So I tell the man, you done do my background when I work for a thing then? The man say we wa investigate that right now. I tell them straight. Then they say I mi wa get charged, but watch ya, I still deh out ya free.”

 

Voice of: S.O.E. Prisoner 3

“Ih my rough, mammy, I di tell yoh cause at the end ah the day, you’re there for nothing and then you’re just there, have to goh through this with a lot of young boy and then a lot of them don’t know what they want, you know, because they gone da that place deh with a lotta rage eena dehn. I try to get ahead now, you know, mammy. I want to try to open a little food business and thing, you know, get pahn my foot and start doing my thing.”