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to be more professional and better trained than the correctional officers. All prisoners were
in solitary confinement. The corridor and the cells of SP 7 were fairly clean.
45.
SP 7 housed four high level convicted prisoners, including a member of the military.
46.
Kevin Tindale, aged 34, was arrested on 12 February 2005 in Montego Bay by
officers of the Kingfish Unit. He was held for about one month at Hunts Bay Police Station
in Kingston, where he was subjected to beatings and put on an ID Parade. He was convicted
on various counts and sentenced to 30 years imprisonment. Since March 2005, he had been
held at Horizon SP 7. The detainees could receive visitors once a week, were confined to
single cells, could take a daily 10-minute shower and had no TV in their cells. He
complained about the quality of the food, the lack of rehabilitation measures and beatings
by the soldiers.
47.
Donald “Zeeks” Phipps, aged around 50, was a very well-known former gang
leader and Matthews Lane strongman. He had no particular complaints about the conditions
at Horizon.
48.
Eldon Calvert, aged 25, had been arrested on 21 January 2008 during a joint
operation and was scheduled to attend Court in April 2010. He explained that the conditions
in SP7 and SP11 under the Jamaican Defense Force were very harsh. The detainees
underwent searches several times per night, sometimes every two hours, where they were
completely naked, with bright lights on. They could receive visits on Thursdays, but the
military was always present and listened to their conversations. They were in complete
isolation and could not talk to the other detainees in the section. They did not have TVs or
games and were locked down 23 hours a day.
49.
SP 11 was less clean because the three detainees had protested against their
conditions by destroying their mattresses and throwing them out in the corridor together
with other items. There were three high level convicted prisoners.
50.
Jeff Campbell Yunadale, aged 28, had been detained in a solitary cell at Horizon
since June 2005; he was awaiting release in 2013. He had been convicted in 2007. The
inmates of the two high-security sectors were allowed to play football once a week. There
had been a water shortage, so he could not shower every day. His visits had been suspended
for one month in January, without any apparent reason. He was allowed to receive 2,000
Jamaican dollars every month to buy products in the shop.
51.
Oraine Baldie, aged 34, had been detained in the remand centre for two years. He
was moved by the soldiers from one cell to another every night in order to harass him. Each
night, the soldiers turned on the lights in his cell and woke him up. The soldiers regularly
searched his cell, including at night, and beat and kicked him around. Three weeks before
the interview, a soldier had claimed that he could smell marijuana. Four soldiers searched
into his cell and kicked him through so that he hit his thigh on the concrete. He displayed a
large bruise on his thigh. The soldiers had batons but did not use them. In fact, the soldiers
sold marijuana and cell phones within the detention facilities. On 7 February 2010, he did
not receive any food. The next day, he got food, but then again no food was provided. On
10 February a sergeant told him that the boss had ordered that the high security detainees
should not get any food or water. He only received food again on the 13th. In protest over
the lack of water and food the three detainees in the wing had started to throw rubbish and
faeces into the corridor. The whole cell was infested with cockroaches that crawled into his
ears while he was sleeping. About one year before, he had been assaulted by a soldier who
beat him simultaneously with both hands on the ears. He still did not receive any drinking
water and his bible was taken away from him. He could go out of his cell once a day for
five minutes in order to take a shower.
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