A criminal lawyer has accused Government of paying “too much lip service” on the dangers posed by incarcerating violent offenders at Westgate Correctional Facility.Rick Woolridge, a former prison officer likened the maximum security facility to a ‘Pandora’s Box’ that will open itself.With more gang members going to jail he said its just a matter of time before violence escalates behind prison walls.“It’s a bomb waiting to explode and all we do is throw money at the problem, money that we don’t have,” said Mr Woolridge.He was commenting on the recent stabbing of a prison inmate on Wednesday.Sean Evans, 23, was discharged from King Edward VII Memorial the after surgery to repair a stab wound to the chest. He was allegedly stabbed by a man serving time for two gang shootings.The suspect, Alvon Maybury, 26 was nicknamed the Facebook Fugitive following his escape from custody in 2010.The victim is serving a two-year prison term for having sex with a 15-year-old girl.Prison authorities and police have yet to release details on the identity of those involved.Prison Officers Association Chairman, Dennis Brown said: “I cannot speak on the issue due to an investigation.”The Minister responsible for prisons, Sen Kim Wilson confirmed the victim is now back at Westgate Correctional Facility where he is expected to make a full recovery.She confirmed that “a particular area remains on lock down until further notice”.No further incidents have been reported and steps have been taken to “bolster internal security procedures” in the interim.Those measures include limiting the use of weightlifting equipment, serving meals to inmates in their cells, curtailing recreation time and segregating high-profiled prisoners.While all for punishment Mr Woolridge charged that the ‘lock them up and throw away the key mentality’ is a repetitive cycle that goes nowhere.“With more gang members incarcerated serving lengthy sentences, he said there’s a growing number of prisoners with nothing to lose.“You cannot give maximum sentences to everybody and say that you are rehabilitating and reforming individuals, you’re not.“All you’re doing is warehousing them, you can’t put stock in a warehouse beyond the capacity of the warehouse itself,” he said.“Ultimately fellow inmates and officers become endangered, their families become endangered because the drum beat can be heard islandwide, we need to find solutions.“Giving maximum sentences like you’re throwing the book at everybody only means one thing. Your problems will turn around, boil over the pot and come back at you and that’s what we’re finding, said Mr Woolridge.He stressed that only through treatment, training and effective programmes will bring about solutions. “All we’ve done is put criminals behind bars in a warehouse,” he said.“I’m not against punishment, what I’m against is warehousing. Show me where the treatment and training of individuals is taking place.“This guy was reportedly coming out of an anger management class and walks into someone who probably should have been in the class with him. Show me where this makes sense.“I’m sure nothing will happen until we revamp the system and revamping it means revamping it from the date of sentencing in court to the date of release.“You don’t have to be locked up behind the walls to find out what’s going on. I knew there was a shanking in Westgate within hours, while I was at a funeral, nobody called me.”On Thursday Sen Wilson said “safety and security” at Westgate is of “paramount concern”, the same concern that prompted the call for a full-scale review of the island’s prisons.Earlier this year a female prison officer was threatened by an inmate armed with a homemade shank at Westgate.A random search turned up a slew of other weapons, cellphones, ice-picks, shanks and drugs.Prisons Commissioner Lt Col Edward Lamb said the threat was “well-handled by officers who defused the situation quite quickly”.Westgate at that time was described by prison officers as a “time bomb waiting to explode”.Fomer Prison Officers Association head Craig Clarke warned the problem was getting worse and expressed safety concerns for officers.“Once upon a time it was just drugs, now they’re sending weapons with the marijuana, cocaine and heroin,” said Mr Clarke.In April he lead 100 officers to a POA press conference to release photographs of illegal drugs, contraband, cash and cellphones to the media.Since his departure, the POA has said very little if anything on their safety concerns at Westgate.Former Director-General of the UK’s National Offender Managerment Services, Phil Wheatley conducted a whirlwind tour of the island’s facilities in May.His review of Bermuda’s Department of Corrections was handed to Government on June 4.Citing security concerns, Sen Wilson said it would not be appropriate to reveal the report in full.She listed the main areas of focus as: security, maintenance and upkeep, management and administration, staffing and manpower levels, and “officer and inmate incidences”.Sen Wilson also said a five-year plan for the Department of Corrections would cover “all aspects of policy, management, operations, infrastructure and legislative reform”.