Comments on: NSW prison operator has a very chequered past http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/nsw-prison-operator-has-a-very-chequered-past/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nadia David http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/nsw-prison-operator-has-a-very-chequered-past/#comment-39663 Nadia David Fri, 02 Oct 2009 06:40:42 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/nsw-prison-operator-has-a-very-chequered-past/#comment-39663 Seriously, when have gaols and the people/governments/companies who run them ever been the subject of praise? These horror stories are replicated in state-run institutions as well, just ask groups like Sisters Inside and Prisoners Abroad. Prisons are not nice places. And it's true that private organisations appear to often be exempt from duty of care and human rights provisions which apply to government-run centres. The Ward inquiry in WA (the Indigenous man who died of heat stroke after being driven 6 hours by a private prisoner transport company in 40+ degree heat with no stops and no aircon) is an excellent case in point. Privatising Parklea is a fairly obvious symptom of the law and order conservatism of the past decade. You lock more people up, you have to build more prisons, that gets more expensive, so then you have to look at alternatives to spending all that money keeping people locked up. Funny how the NSW Govt isn't looking at ways to keep people out of prison in the first place. Seriously, when have gaols and the people/governments/companies who run them ever been the subject of praise? These horror stories are replicated in state-run institutions as well, just ask groups like Sisters Inside and Prisoners Abroad. Prisons are not nice places. And it’s true that private organisations appear to often be exempt from duty of care and human rights provisions which apply to government-run centres. The Ward inquiry in WA (the Indigenous man who died of heat stroke after being driven 6 hours by a private prisoner transport company in 40+ degree heat with no stops and no aircon) is an excellent case in point.

Privatising Parklea is a fairly obvious symptom of the law and order conservatism of the past decade. You lock more people up, you have to build more prisons, that gets more expensive, so then you have to look at alternatives to spending all that money keeping people locked up. Funny how the NSW Govt isn’t looking at ways to keep people out of prison in the first place.

]]> By: stephen martin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/nsw-prison-operator-has-a-very-chequered-past/#comment-39624 stephen martin Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:20:45 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/nsw-prison-operator-has-a-very-chequered-past/#comment-39624 What is the chief criterion for a successful tender - Cost? What is the chief criterion for a successful tender - Cost?

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