The St Martin Deputy, who has been campaigning for a tightening of the rules governing home leave, spoke following the questioning of a prisoner in connection with Saturday’s attack on the Esplanade.’Clearly the President of Home Affairs is out of her depth and she should consider her position,’ he said.Senator Wendy Kinnard dismissed Deputy Hill’s attack saying that he was ‘ill-informed’ about the complex challenges facing her committee.’He needs to understand the broad picture and have a deeper understanding of the many issues involved,’ she said.Senator Kinnard added that a press conference would be held after tomorrow’s emergency Home Affairs meeting.She admitted today that chronic overcrowding and years of underinvestment was plunging the Prison into crisis.Senator Wendy Kinnard said today that a raft of measures introduced to reduce inmate numbers had failed to cope with the continually expanding prison population.
