00:00As at November 4th, 98 people had been held under preventative detention orders, according to information from the TTPS.
00:09The SOE was declared in July and has since been extended twice into January of next year.
00:15It means several of the detainees have spent and may spend months in detention without charge.
00:21What we would hope is that we don't have a repeat of the last SOE that we had.
00:30I think it would be 2011, if I'm not mistaken, where at the completion of the SOE, all of the individuals who were not charged were released.
00:44And then we had all of these matters be in place before the court where people would have sued the state.
00:53On Friday, the SOE tribunal issued a release informing that it has been carrying out its duties as required
01:01and has submitted several reports to the Minister of Homeland Security with recommendations as it pertains to the detainees.
01:09Despite queries from the media, the minister has not indicated what is the next course of action.
01:16Meantime, the Prisons Officers Association president says, as it pertains to prisons officers, they are following due process.
01:24We hold them utilizing at least the minimum rules as it relates to incarcerated individuals.
01:32So they must be fed, they must be allowed opportunity for at least some sort of what we call airing or recreation, medical care and what not.
01:48Last week, reports surfaced that detainees had embarked on a hunger strike.
01:53However, Gordon was not willing to confirm this report.
01:57We stay clear of those sort of labels because we have systems which we employ.
02:07We only consider our diet passed or refused if when we serve the following meal that we meet the previous meal untouched.
02:25Sometimes when people say that they pass and they jail food, but they may have crackers, they may have snacks, they may have cornflakes.
02:35So it's not that they not eat it, they're just not eating the jail food.
02:40So that is why we kind of, I would like, I would like to stay away from confirming this talk about a hunger strike.
02:49Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.
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