SOLOMONS: Long overdue reforms to prison system

Updated August 16, 2007 16:10:12

Reforms to the Solomon Islands Correctional Services Act are due to go before the country's parliament at this sitting. The reforms reflect a perception throughout the Pacific region that changes to prison systems are long overdue.

Presenter: Barbara Heggen
Speakers: Barry Apsey, Solomon Islands Prisons Superintendant; Ioane Naivalurua, Fiji's Commissioner of Prisons; Charles Ashley, Solomon Islands lawyer