Amid concern over the involvement of young people in criminal activity, just released figures show that eighty-eight males between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four are currently on remand at the Bordelais Correctional Facility (BCF), mainly for 'causing death'. But the number in the wider 15 -35 age group on remand is a whopping 232 in a prison population of 541 as of December 7, 2022, some ninety-five percent of whom are male. Regarding penal inmates, the primary offence for serving time is also causing death. According to statistics obtained by St Lucia Times, the average age of inmates at
