Window breaker freed after 29 years in jail
Jamaica has reached an out-of-court settlement with a man jailed for 29 years
without trial for allegedly breaking a window, a human rights lawyer says.
Ivan Nettleford, 77, released last year from the Saint Catherine District prison
on the outskirts of the capital, was lost in the prison system after being charged
with malicious destruction of property in 1972. On his first appearance in court,
he was declared unfit to enter a plea due to a mental condition and the judge
ordered him kept in custody until his condition improved. Full story