Incarceration likened to ‘game of survival’ in deplorable central prison

Central prison inmates decried the deplorable state of the country’s main prison, in an open letter to President Nikos Christodoulides on Wednesday.

The prisoners’ rights association said the prison was marred by incidents of violence, overcrowding, poor and inadequate food provision, and the discontinuation of educational and correctional programs.

The association also accused the authorities of posturing, misinformation, and attempts to cover up the true extend of the island’s prison