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At 32, Michael Pitcher was jailed for life. High on cocaine, he and another man broke into a senior citizen’s home and beat her with a stick. Days later, she died from her injuries in hospital. When the verdict came in, he thought his life was over. ...

Social rehabilitation programmes involving prisoners will be undertaken with greater sensitivity for the community, Senator Jeff Baron has pledged. Mr Baron, the Minister of National Security, drew criticism from some quarters when two convicted murd...

Inmates at Westgate Correctional Facility are dying sawdust for the Bermuda Day floats for a second year. The initiative is the result of a partnership with the Department of Community and Cultural Affairs and inmates have already dyed about 30 bale...

A prisoner rarely, if ever, receives a request from a Premier. But for Dwayne Signor an invitation from Michael Dunkley to carve a cedar gift for the Pope has proved to be a “milestone moment” in his life, and one that he hopes to build on as he prep...

Westgate Correctional Facility will be a safer place to work and reside following this week’s now-resolved dispute, the president of the Prison Officers Association has said. Timothy Seon added that the guards’ suspension of certain services had bee...

Officers at Westgate Correctional Facility remained in dispute with management yesterday after hours of attempted negotiations. An atmosphere of defiance prevailed as officers stayed in the car park of the Dockyard prison, having downed tools over ...

Pope Francis has been invited to visit Bermuda by Michael Dunkley. The invitation was extended yesterday when the Premier attended a General Audience with the pontiff at the Vatican, pointing out that Bermuda had a large Catholic population. During h...

A teenager who tried to smuggle a mobile phone into Westgate Correctional Facility by hiding it in her bra has been handed a 12-month conditional discharge. After a trial on May 2, Char-donnay Saltus, 19, from Pembroke, was found guilty of attempting...

A Pembroke man who admitted importing almost 4kg of cannabis into Bermuda to help care for his sick mother has been jailed. Kieron Francis received a 32-month sentence after plant material was found in a workout bench he owned, as his bags were check...

Seven incarcerated foreign nationals have been deported to their home countries, the Ministry of Home Affairs has announced. The inmates, originally from Jamaica, Grenada, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Barbados and St Maarten, were flown out on Sund...

Inmates at Westgate Correctional Facility are “relentless” in their pursuit of illegal drugs and other forms of contraband, according to Commissioner of Corrections Edward Lamb. Colonel Lamb spoke after the Department of Corrections revealed that the...

Commissioner of Corrections Edward Lamb has hailed 2015 as a year of standout progress for the prison service, but insists more is to follow in the coming year. Acknowledging that resources remain the biggest challenge in corrections, Colonel Lamb sa...