The Government must upgrade the nation's prison facilities and install more cameras and technological devices to help monitor the movement and actions of prison inmates, Burton Hill, general secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, said yesterday.

Hill said had there been a camera near the cell at the Golden Grove Prison in Arouca, where murder accused Sunil Ali was being kept, the authorities would have been able to "pull the tape and see what transpired".

Ali, who was charged with the brutal murder of his step-daughter Hope Arismandez, 8, was found hanging in his cell from a make-shift clothes line and bleeding from one of his wrists on May 30.

Hill, in an interview with the Express, said although there were cameras installed at strategic points at some of the country's prison facilities, "there was need for more". -Rohandra John