{"id":4921,"date":"2010-12-07T08:43:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T13:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=4921"},"modified":"2010-12-07T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T13:45:37","slug":"horrifying-conditions-at-detention-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/12\/horrifying-conditions-at-detention-centre","title":{"rendered":"Horrifying Conditions At Detention Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man recently detained for 24 hours at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre reported that the conditions there are disgusting and unacceptable.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who does not want to be identified, wishes to raise awareness of the horrifying conditions &#8211; toilets overflowing with feces, insufficient and bug-infested food and sexual assault being amongst the horrors he described to The Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>The man was apparently detained due to a lapsed work permit. Immigration Minister Brent Symonette indicated that he would investigate the cliams made.<\/p>\n<p>A year and a half ago the government commissioned a report on conditions at the Detention Centre after receiving repeated claims of abuse, insufficient food and overall poor living conditions at the centre.<\/p>\n<p>A report was commissioned and although previous minister of state for immigration, Branville McCartney, promised it would be released &#8211; it never has been. Brent Symonette told The Tribune that he was unsure if the report would be released.<\/p>\n<p>The man also recounted stories of others that he had been told, including claims of rape and a woman who was haemorrhaging but did not receive medical attention for &#8220;two or three days.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man recently detained at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre reported that the conditions there are disgusting and unacceptable, yet the government claims to be unaware of any issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}