Significant increase in serious crime amongst young offenders

Georgetown: Director of Prisons, Dale Erskine says that the percentage of young offenders being charged with serious crimes in Guyana has increase significantly for the past three years.
Prison officials noted that the organization is a coherently structured system that caters to the needs of young people; it rehabilitates and renews them for the society from which they were once extracted.
It was further related that the initiation process (prisonisation) of new inmates, specifically young offenders is not a one day process. One must learn to adapt to their new atmosphere and acknowledge the change from civilian life to that of having their freedom taken away.
In explaining, prison officials said as part of the prisonisation process, new inmates would go through the registration stage of the initiation process which entails inmates having to be checked in. They would then change their clothing and be assigned to their dormitories or cells. Before this, the new prison residents are told of the rules and regulations of the penitentiary. This transition, it was noted first begins in the lock ups. And the adherence to basic regulations that govern the prisons is the first step to rehabilitating the law breakers.