Murder accused Rajaee Ali is seeking to clear the air on the meeting he had with former Senior Superintendent Roger Alexander- now Homeland Minister and ACP Richard Smith- who met with him during a visit to the Maximum Security Prison in January of this year.
Ali is also asking the Inspector of Prisons to look into the conditions in which detainees are being held at Teteron Barracks- as he said they have not had family visits and deprived of other fundamental rights.
00:00Rajai Ali, one of the high-risk inmates awaiting trial for the murder of State Prosecutor Dana Seetal,
00:06has sought to clear the air on the meeting that took place between himself and former Senior Superintendent of Police Roger Alexander and ACP Richard Smith
00:14when they visited him back in January of this year at the Maximum Security Prison, MSP.
00:20Ali said the purpose of the meeting was misconstrued by others.
00:24My body proud situation and talk to them about the situation in jail.
00:30How men are being charged for phones and they don't have proper facilities in place so they're meant to communicate with their family.
00:38I talk about the gun hunting in prison.
00:42More or less, I was giving them my advice from my point of view from being on the streets.
00:47And the mistakes were I did think that the police service was making and approaching and dealing with crime.
00:54And I was asking them to, one of the main things that it was there for us, asking them to come and say,
01:00see, visit the other men in building duty, which was like me soon, Robert Paul, me, um, to hear our men, to hear our men at the same time.
01:13In a virtual recording meeting with one of his lawyers today, with the audio obtained by TV6,
01:18and verified as his voice by his wife, Stacey Ali, who spoke to us briefly by phone,
01:23Rajali Ali said that Alexander, during the meeting, agreed that prison was supposed to be a place of reform and not punishment.
01:30And I was telling them, you know, we care if we can't expect people to reform without, you know, without family, without religion.
01:46And these things, you're deprived of these things.
01:49If a man see my child twice for the year, when he come out of prison after 10 years,
01:56he ain't no family to go back to, and they're one of the first steps to reform.
01:59Ali said that they were being deprived of their fundamental rights while being kept at Tetran Barracks,
02:05and have not been afforded any family visits.
02:08The right to even read their religious books, a claim also verified by his wife, Stacey Ali,
02:13who said they have not been able to see him since he was taken there.
02:16We're asking Mr. O'Neill, the inspector of prisons, to come and visit.
02:22If he is at prison, he should come and visit and see if they said,
02:25it's 88 days now.
02:28It's our father's, you know, going to speak to the children.
02:31The children are talking to me.
02:33They don't know what we know.
02:34We are trying to go into school.
02:36We don't know what my frame did.
02:38It's our sons, you know, my parents, who are old, who are sick.
02:41We don't know what my parents, we never talk to my wives in 80, is it 88, or 89 days since.
02:53You know, we can get enough visits from my family.
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