Death row prisoners on hunger strike

Prisoners at the F1 Division of the Royal Jail are conducting a hunger strike in an attempt to improve the conditions and standard of treatment which they currently receive at the institution. A close relative of one of the death-row prisoners, who have refused to eat for the past four days, contacted Sunday Newsday and expressed the concerns of the protesting inmates. According to the relative who preferred to remain anonymous the area in which the prisoners are being held is in a more dilapidated and less healthy state than the rest of the jail.

“The prisoners have decided to protest those inhumane conditions and poor quality of living at the condemned F1 Division. Just because they are on death row doesn’t mean that they should be treated any differently to anyone else but to the personnel at the jail these people are going to die anyway so it doesn’t make sense to treat them with the respect they deserve as human beings,” stated the relative. Attempts to contact the Commissioner of Prisons proved futile, however officers attached to the jail said that the prisoners had been asking for better conditions for a long time but had no knowledge of the present strike.