Recovering addicts at the Infinity Ralph Turpin’s Transitional HouseThe condition of the building although addicts pay $50,Jerseys Wholesale,000 per monthon Agriculture Road, East Coast Demerara,Authentic Jerseys China, are experiencing extremely hard times since the murder of the facility’s founder, Ralph Turpin.Turpin was shot dead on September 15, 2011 during a confrontation outside the Stabroek Market Square.Since then, inmates at the facility have reportedly been on the brink of starvation and are experiencing other hardships that could lead them back to a life on the streets.The six inmates had gone to the facility with hopes of rehabilitating themselves after years of drug and alcohol abuse.Most of them are deportees from the United States.Richard Mahase who has been at the halfway house since November last claims that the new care-taker of the facility has neglected them for several months.Several persons said they have been out of food despite paying the monthly $50,000 fee.Numerous efforts by Kaieteur News to reach the new care-taker by phone proved futile.Mahase told this publication that he has been an addict to cocaine for 15 years. He,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, however,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, went to the institute with hopes of reforming.“Since November I came here, I don’t get nothing to do. This place don’t have any grocery… nothing. You go in the kitchen and take a look, you will see everything empty. Up to this morning I had to borrow sugar from the neighbour,”He claimed that the facility has numerous rules but “the rule don’t make sense”.When Kaieteur News visited the half-way house, only two inmates were at the premises.According to Mahase, many of them are leaving since there is no food at the facility.“One of them leave this morning to go in the interior because we are not doing anything here and there is never food.”Another inmate,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, Leon Chang who is suffering from mild stroke, said that he had been living in New York for 28 years but his mother sent him back to Guyana since he was an alcoholic. Chang has been living at the facility since November last; His mother has beenAn empty kitchen at the centre.paying a monthly fee to the institute for his stay. The man claimed also that they were all being neglected.Mahase said that someone was supposed to be at the facility for 24 hours “but no one has been overlooking us. They just come and go.”“Last week the caretaker came to collect my fee and she left and say she going and buy grocery but we didn’t see her back. The next day we see a bag outside with pint oil, half gallon rice and some other thing.” Mahase told this publication.He also added that Chang needs daily therapy for “stroke” but nothing of that sort is happening.This publication understands that everyone at the facility is required to wash their own clothes.“I have been washing Chang clothes because he can’t wash due to the stroke.”“I heard when Turpin was here everything was up-to-date. But now everything is falling apart. We heard the facility is closing down but when we asked the councilor, he say that’s not true.The councilor does come when he feels like, we don’t have anything to do and anything to eat,China NFL Jerseys, we are left on our own,” another addict said.Mahase told this publication that a rehab centre teaches an addict how to manage his life but no such teaching is being done at the Infinity Transitional Center.The man alleged that the inmates had nothing to eat on Christmas Day.He said that he was so stressed out that he went and “smoke about three times.”Neighbours also supported the statement made by the men.The rehabilitation centre caters for addicts of all types.Kaieteur news understands that after an inmate has been there for six months, the councilor would decide whether that inmate is fit to return to the “working world.”
