The Barbados Prison Service (Dodds) has entered into an agreement for higher-level education within the prison system, that will include university degrees up to the master’s level.
That has been disclosed by the Minister of Home Affairs and Information, Wilfred Abrahams. He says that doing this would give former inmates the opportunity to become entrepreneurs. The Minister was speaking at an “Introduction to Agriculture Production” graduation at the Barbados Prison Service (Dodds). Minister Abrahams says it is the intention of the new Agriculture Production to rehabilitate those who pass through Dodds.
He says the population at Dodds is a transient one, and notes that if a person leaves there, having acquired no skills, then that person will be back behind prison walls once again within a short time.
