A High Court judge believes people on remand at Dodds for long periods should be made to participate in reintegration programmes, including counselling.In fact, Madam Justice Pamela Beckles is hopeful that prison officials will consider the suggestion favourably. The judge who presides over the No. 5 Supreme Court put forward the idea as she dealt with the case of 32-year-old Jamal Ahmal Skeete, of no fixed place of abode, who had spent over 1 100 days on remand.“1 106 days and counting is quite a lot. I wish you all will get that changed at the prison with respect to persons on remand getting involved in counselling or [other] programmes. If all that time he [was] doing counselling or programmes, then I would be minded to say ‘yes, I think he is fully rehabilitated, he can go back into society’. I think that I will have to put him in some kind of programme for a little while to be reintegrated back,” Justice Beckles said.
