The Prime Min­is­ter has con­firmed that the Min­istry of Jus­tice will over­see the Prison Ser­vice.

The Gazette No­tice out­lin­ing the re­spon­si­bil­i­ties of each min­istry makes no men­tion of the pris­ons falling un­der the min­istries of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty and De­fence.

But in the Sched­ule for the Min­istry of Jus­tice, Min­is­ter De­vesh Ma­haraj has the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty for the prison sys­tem.

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar con­firmed that it is in­clu­sive of mat­ters re­lat­ing to prison of­fi­cers.

This is a re­turn of the sys­tem un­der the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship Ad­min­is­tra­tion, where its Min­istry of Jus­tice had sim­i­lar re­spon­si­bil­i­ties.