68 new recruits join Fiji Corrections Service

68 new recruits have joined the Fiji Corrections Service after their Passing Out Parade yesterday.

While speaking at the Passing Out Parade, Attorney General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says corrections officers play a very important role in society.

Sayed-Khaiyum says they are an integral part of our ability to ensure that we have a fair, just and prosperous Fiji.

He highlighted that we need to have prison officers who have a lot of compassion, sympathy, being able to use a lot more technology and being able to relate to the prisoners.

The AG adds they have tried to ensure that the corrections service does not become a place where prisoners come and therefore languish in the system.

He further says Fiji had a very high rate of recidivism for a long period of time. Sayed-Khaiyum also emphasized the Government's significant investment in the past years to upgrade and maintain corrections infrastructural facilities to meet international standards and assist with inmate rehabilitation.