Inmate says officers paid thousands to aid escapes

Read storyIn another story from the Carmichael Road Detention Centre an inmate told The Tribune that officers collect between $4,000 and $6,000 to help prisoners escape.

He also mentioned several cases of fraud, including the case of a Haitian man who paid $5,000 and "became a Bahamian national overnight”.

“They falsified school records to say he attended school in the Bahamas,” the detainee claimed. “I don't know what else happened from that point but that’s where it began,” he told The Tribune.

The inmate mentioned another case in which five Chinese persons paid officials at the centre $30,000 to be released.

“They put them on an airplane to Cuba so that they could try and re-enter the Bahamas from there and then go on to the US.

"They stayed in Cuba for a few days and then they got caught again here in the Bahamas, so essentially they lost their money,” he said.

Full Story in The Tribune here (Page A01)