Josefa Nata claims Fiji’s prison system is perpetuating what he describes as a “dark culture” of cover ups of the abuse of prisoners’ rights, including uninvestigated deaths, and has met with Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka to relay the need for a reform of the prison system.
“The prison management spends a good portion of their time covering up. They go to the extent of stopping calls to relatives, stopping visitations, all of which could be avoided if there is a normal process of reporting . . .