WOMEN in the Labasa Corrections Centre use buckets as toilets at night.
Fiji Corrections Service Commissioner Dr Jalesi Nakarawa said this was because the toilet was outside their cell.
“They have to use buckets because the toilets are outside,” he said.
“At night when they lock the cell, the toilet is outside.”
Dr Nakarawa said only three cells were allocated for women at the Labasa prison facility.
“Women at times are crowded in these cells and at times we have to move them to Suva.”
Dr Nakarawa said the cell blocks housing the women inmates were originally built for men.
“We are looking at constructing one for women but that is our long-term goal.
“We don’t have a big number of women in prison here compared with the rest.”
While there was a lot of infrastructure improvement conducted in the prison outside, he said little was done for the inside.
“When you go inside it’s still the same old infrastructure.
“We are looking into this, for them to able to use the toilets outside at night.”
