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Correctional Services

May 13, 2008

His Story: Maurice Jones - a proud corrections officer

“I was very hesitant about it because I have always heard of the stigma attached to working in prisons, the brutality, the types of persons in prison ... it was like these men are notorious, who have been charged for various crimes, including murder.”

An inmate painted this portrait of Maurice Jones, an 18-year veteran of the Department of Correctional Services. via Jamaica Gleaner

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