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		<title>Aboriginal crime and punishment: spending on jails but not outcomes</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/16/aboriginal-crime-and-punishment-spending-on-jails-but-not-outcomes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/16/aboriginal-crime-and-punishment-spending-on-jails-but-not-outcomes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous australians]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisoners]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The rise of a punitive "law and order" culture in Australia has had a profoundly racial dimension, manifested in soaring rates of indigenous incarceration. <b>Inga Ting</b> continues her special report.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Aboriginal crime and punishment: incarceration rates rise under neoliberalism</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/15/aboriginal-prison-rate-continues-to-rise-is-neoliberalism-at-play/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/15/aboriginal-prison-rate-continues-to-rise-is-neoliberalism-at-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous population]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT Intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisoners]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=265351</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The number of indigenous prisoners has increased for the 11th year in a row, despite the prisoner population falling for the first time in a decade. <b>Inga Ting</b> reports a history of failed government policy.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>44</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Baillieu Dump: prisoner alcohol tests down, positive drug results up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/01/the-baillieu-dump-prisoner-alcohol-tests-down-positive-drug-results-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/11/01/the-baillieu-dump-prisoner-alcohol-tests-down-positive-drug-results-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrections victoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisoner rehabilitation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=256178</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Alcohol testing of Victorian prisoners has dropped 13% in the past year, and drug testing increased by only 0.2%, despite an increase in positive test results, according to the Department of Justice's annual report, writes <b>Patrick Bertoli</b>, a Swinburne University journalism student.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deaths in custody: why are more prisoners dying from &#8216;natural causes&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/22/deaths-in-custody-why-are-more-prisoners-dying-from-natural-causes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/22/deaths-in-custody-why-are-more-prisoners-dying-from-natural-causes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=230689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An independent investigation is needed to explain the sharp rise in the number of Australian prison deaths being attributed to "natural causes" and the young ages of those dying. <b>Inga Ting</b> concludes her <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/deaths-in-custody/">special investigation</a> into deaths in custody.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deaths in custody: authorities ignore warnings on hanging points</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/15/deaths-in-custody-authorities-ignore-warnings-on-hanging-points/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/15/deaths-in-custody-authorities-ignore-warnings-on-hanging-points/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide rates]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=229316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[State governments around the country are not only failing to fulfil their obligation to remove obvious hanging points in police and prison cells, they are also building new prisons that do not meet this safety standard. <b>Inga Ting</b> continues her <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/deaths-in-custody/">special investigation</a> into deaths in custody.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deaths in custody: sweeping changes, but coroners critical of inquiry</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/08/deaths-in-custody-sweeping-changes-but-coroners-critical-of-inquiry/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/08/deaths-in-custody-sweeping-changes-but-coroners-critical-of-inquiry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 02:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corrective services NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisoners]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Royal Commission]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=227944</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Serious questions about the integrity, accountability and independence of death in custody investigations are still being raised by NSW coroners, despite sweeping changes following a Royal Commission, writes <b>Inga Ting</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/08/deaths-in-custody-sweeping-changes-but-coroners-critical-of-inquiry/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deaths in custody: &#8216;I&#8217;m homicidal, I&#8217;ve told them that for days&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/01/deaths-in-custody-im-homicidal-ive-told-them-that-for-days/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/01/deaths-in-custody-im-homicidal-ive-told-them-that-for-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=226519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Careless or inappropriate jail or cell placement has contributed to at least 20 deaths in NSW prison custody in the past decade, according to a <em>Crikey</em> analysis of coronial reports. <b>Inga Ting</b> continues her special investigation.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deaths in custody: families blocked from warning corrections staff</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/25/deaths-in-custody-families-blocked-from-warning-corrections-staff/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/25/deaths-in-custody-families-blocked-from-warning-corrections-staff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 02:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisoners]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=225245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The troubled relationship between custodial authorities and prisoners' families has continued to draw criticism at deaths in custody inquests, with numerous coroners finding deaths may have been avoided if family members assisted in care. <b>Inga Ting</b> continues her <a href="http://www.crikey.com.au/deaths-in-custody/"><em>Crikey</em> investigation</a>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/25/deaths-in-custody-families-blocked-from-warning-corrections-staff/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deaths in custody: mental health assessments fail suicidal inmates</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/04/deaths-in-custody-mental-health-assessments-fail-suicidal-inmates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/04/deaths-in-custody-mental-health-assessments-fail-suicidal-inmates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 03:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=220942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One quarter of inmates who suicided in NSW prisons in the past nine years did so within days of having been assessed as no longer at risk of self harm or suicide. In her continuing investigation, <b>Inga Ting</b> highlights how health agencies failed inmates.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/05/04/deaths-in-custody-mental-health-assessments-fail-suicidal-inmates/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Deaths in custody: seven tragedies, seven cases of negligence</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/27/deaths-in-custody-seven-tragedies-seven-cases-of-negligence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/27/deaths-in-custody-seven-tragedies-seven-cases-of-negligence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisoners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=219467</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The tragic 2007 death of mentally ill prisoner Adam Douglas Shipley is just one of seven deaths linked through a chain of negligence, bureaucratic bungling and failed policies. <b>Inga Ting</b> continues her special investigation for <em>Crikey</em>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/04/27/deaths-in-custody-seven-tragedies-seven-cases-of-negligence/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>O&#8217;Farrell faces prison revolt on needles</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/24/ofarrell-faces-prison-revolt-on-needles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/24/ofarrell-faces-prison-revolt-on-needles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Knott</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry O’Farrell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[needle syringe programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW election 2011]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=205641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prison officers in NSW have threatened to walk off the job if the incoming O'Farrell government introduces a needle exchange program in NSW prisons. The Liberals want a trial if they are elected.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/02/24/ofarrell-faces-prison-revolt-on-needles/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mental health in our jails: inmates, bureaucrats question treatment</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/07/mental-health-in-our-jails-inmates-bureaucrats-question-treatment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/07/mental-health-in-our-jails-inmates-bureaucrats-question-treatment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[department of corrective services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisoners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=176890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly half of all inmates in NSW have a mental illness, but decisions about their care are left in the hands of prison guards with little or no training in mental health. Freelance journalist <b>Inga Ting</b> goes inside to talk to prisoners and staff.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/10/07/mental-health-in-our-jails-inmates-bureaucrats-question-treatment/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s most humane prison</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct</link>
		<comments>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1986002,00.html?xid=huffpo-direct#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 00:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Norway]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=135724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Flat-screen TVs, minifridges, stainless steel kitchens, music lessons and cooking classes. It isn't a holiday resort -- it's Norway's Halden Fengsel Prison.]]></description>
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		<title>Deaths in custody: did the Royal Commission get it wrong?</title>
		<link>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/aborigines-less-likely-to-die-in-prison-than-others/story-e6frg6zo-1225853790410</link>
		<comments>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/aborigines-less-likely-to-die-in-prison-than-others/story-e6frg6zo-1225853790410#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aboriginal deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deaths in custody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palm Island inquest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=130612</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Public knowledge of aboriginal deaths in custody is warped. Aboriginals are less likely than non-Aboriginals to die in custody and being imprisoned actually reduces likelihood of death, writes former head of research into the Royal Commission, <b>David Biles</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/aborigines-less-likely-to-die-in-prison-than-others/story-e6frg6zo-1225853790410/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Productivity Commission report reveals chronic overcrowding in our jails</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/29/productivity-commission-report-reveals-chronic-overcrowding-in-our-jails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/29/productivity-commission-report-reveals-chronic-overcrowding-in-our-jails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[NT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jails]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=112750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Productivity Commission’s annual Report on Government Services was released today, finding that Australia's prisons are overcrowded, warehouses for Indigenous Australians, and ineffective in tackling the causes of crime. ]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/01/29/productivity-commission-report-reveals-chronic-overcrowding-in-our-jails/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Inside a secret CIA &#8220;torture&#8221; prison</title>
		<link>http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-secret-prison-found/story?id=9115978&#038;page=1</link>
		<comments>http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/cia-secret-prison-found/story?id=9115978&#038;page=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=99894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<em>ABC News</em> has uncovered the site of one of the CIA's secret European prisons: inside a fancy-pants horse riding school in Vilnius, Lithuania.]]></description>
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		<title>Prisoners take drugs and have sex. Shock.</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/prisoners-take-drugs-and-have-s-x-shock/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/prisoners-take-drugs-and-have-s-x-shock/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[VIC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dame Phyllis Frost prison]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[womens' prisons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/17/prisoners-take-drugs-and-have-s-x-shock/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To those familiar with the criminal justice system, the revelations in today’s <i>Age</i> about drug abuse and sex in Victoria’'s womens' prison will come as no surprise.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>NSW prison operator has a very chequered past</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/nsw-prison-operator-has-a-very-chequered-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/nsw-prison-operator-has-a-very-chequered-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Barns</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GEO Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/02/nsw-prison-operator-has-a-very-chequered-past/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The New South Wales government has allowed the GEO Group to take over Sydney’s Parklea prison, despite the company's questionable history.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Trouble in paradise for Libs and Nats</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/17/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-4/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/17/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Farmer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political snippets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nt news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/17/richard-farmers-chunky-bits-4/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Liberals and Nationals are on the verge of completely breaking down, more Aussies are behind bars, Perth ambulances have been left out in the cold, and a croc on the cover of the <em>NT News</em>? Must be Thursday.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>World turns blind eye to North Korea&#8217;s labour camp abuse</title>
		<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071902178.html?hpid=topnews</link>
		<comments>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071902178.html?hpid=topnews#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights abuses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=74927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 200,000 prisoners in North Korea's gulag subsist on a diet of corn and salt, live in rags, work 12- to 15-hour days and are regularly beaten and raped. So why aren't the world's leaders (or Bono) paying attention?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Madoff hires help to find the comfiest jail</title>
		<link>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6633809.ece</link>
		<comments>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6633809.ece#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:53:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Madoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=71568</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bernie Madoff has hired a "veteran prison consultant" to help find him the best possible prison in which to serve his 150-year jail term.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6633809.ece/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Madoff&#8217;s life in the clink</title>
		<link>http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/06/29/where-does-bernie-go-from-here-part-ii-with-lawyer-alan-ellis/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/06/29/where-does-bernie-go-from-here-part-ii-with-lawyer-alan-ellis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Players]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bernie Madoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[white collar crimes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=71000</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A great interview Alan Ellis, lawyer and author of the <em>Federal Prison Guidebook</em> about his surprise at Bernie Madoff's 150-year sentence -- and what happens next.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/06/29/where-does-bernie-go-from-here-part-ii-with-lawyer-alan-ellis/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>NT: &#8220;Unprecedented budget for unprecedented times&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/05/2561658.htm</link>
		<comments>http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/05/05/2561658.htm#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 22:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Links]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgetary allocations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NT Budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[school]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=55710</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[High school amalgamations road improvements and prison funding gap give mixed results in the NT
's "unprecedented" budget.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Splitting hairs to flog off NSW&#8217;s prisons</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/splitting-hairs-to-flog-off-nsws-prisons/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/splitting-hairs-to-flog-off-nsws-prisons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NSW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Robertson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatisation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/?p=50934</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By accepting the NSW Corrective Services portfolio, former NSW Unions secretary John Robertson has taken a poisoned chalice, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/04/09/splitting-hairs-to-flog-off-nsws-prisons/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>GEO joins NSW privatised jail race</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/12/geo-joins-nsw-privatised-jail-race/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/12/geo-joins-nsw-privatised-jail-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NSW Labor Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nsw state government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisoners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prisons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[privatisation deal]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false"></guid>
		<description><![CDATA[John Robertson is following in the former Treasurer's footsteps by implementing the private management of jails in flagrant opposition to NSW Labor Party policy, writes <b>Alex Mitchell</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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