Correctional Services Technical Working Group to complete work within 90 days.

Upon receiving the recent INDECOM report into issues at the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Facility, I had communicated the intention to have a multi stakeholder working group to review the issues, draft the way forward, and hold us accountable.

This morning, the Working Group commenced meeting, and I laid the foundation for the Correctional Services Technical Working Group, which has been convened to complete work within 90 days.

Their priority focus will be to lay particular attention to the “duty of care” for the wards in the DCS, especially in respect to appropriate measures of discipline and timely access to education and psychosocial interventions.