Prime Minister Andrew Holness has revealed that the Government is now mulling a proposal for a new prison.

"Some of the circumstances in the report, I believe the government can do a little better and we will," said Holness promising that he will spend some time to ensure that the conditions of those who remain are improved.

In 2017, the Holness administration rejected an offer by the British Government to provide $5.5 billion dollars to build a new prison in Jamaica.

Holness' Government did not provide any explanation for rejecting the offer with Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith only saying the terms were not beneficial to Jamaica as a whole.

In 2015 when then British Prime Minister David Cameron announced the prison offer, Holness who was the Opposition Leader at the time, said money would be better spent on education.