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Prison service short of 283 warders

COMMISSIONER of Corrections Lieutenant Colonel Gary Rowe says the Department of Correctional Services (DCS) is short of 283 warders to serve the island's prisons.Rowe said that an investment in training a second cohort of trainees to fill the 283 vacancies within the department fell through with the onset of the novel coronavirus last year.

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