“French prison system needs to be fixed urgently”

Says Louis Mussington.

MARIGOT—The French prison system is in dire need of repair and as a result the French Republic is looking at the amount of finances needed to have the Penitentiary in Basseterre and Point-e-Pete fixed permanently, said Louis Mussington in a reaction to the recent death of Mathieu Carty, the teenager who was killed in Basseterre prison after he was arrested for the rape and death of Wendy Montulet.
Placing Carty in the prison population was incorrect according to Mussington but he believes that prisons in the Caribbean and in the entire Republic of France are seriously overcrowded. “Something needs to be done and done quickly,” said Mussington. “If the person is taken to prison for the safe keeping and waiting for the investigation to be completed and dies, then the government is responsible.”
Prison guards did not hear the cries of Carty while he was being brutalized by some inmates because the alarm was not working, said Mussington. Several inmates have been questioned about the death.
Mussington says he has learnt that the arrest and the death of the teenager was a cover up to have Carty to be the fall guy for the rape and murder of Montulet. These circumstances will come out in the hearing when the matter comes to the court in a few weeks.
Carty’s parents are taking the government to court to have the matter properly addressed.