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St Catherine District Prison

TIME : 2016/2/18 15:33:28

Walking southeast along Barrett St from the church, you'll pass behind the St Catherine District Prison. Hangings have been carried out here since 1714. Today, many prisoners are on death row in narrow cells that date back almost three centuries. Conditions in the prison, Jamaica's largest, were condemned in 1994 by the UN Human Rights Committee, and a British Member of Parliament described a recent visit as 'like something out of a nightmare.'