IT WAS most interesting to read the website article, "Jails so full prisoners have to sleep in toilets", from the other side of the world.
Read more: Prisoners sleeping in toilets at overcrowded jailThe NSW State Labor Government has been placing pressure on the
public sector union for correctional officers to accept workplace reform or risk prison closures and/or privatisation.
Australia over the years has followed many of the penalogical changes that have occurred in Britain. After all, Australia was firstly a penal colony for mother England. Although our NSW State Labor Government remains a prisoner to economic rationalism, hopefully they will realise the disastrous course that their compatriots in Britain have embarked on and surrender any plans to privatise prisons.
Treating prisoners in a firm but fair manner has been the catchcry of the NSW Corrective Services. Housing privatised prisoners in toilets surely must be huge step backwards in humane prisoner management and should have no place in the Australian correctional environment.
Hopefully, in Australia we can once again learn from the British system, by not privatising our prisons.
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