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Secret reports reveal violence against prisoners in NSW

Submitted by 2SER on Sun, 28/10/2012 - 5:12pm

The alarming level of violence by guards against prisoners in NSW, has been revealed this week, with the release of several secret reports.

Fairfax media obtained the documents under FOI laws, which show that the corrective services department has covered up the problem for over a decade.

More than 1000 violent incidents occur each year but very few are being investigated and even fewer result in discipline or charges against guards.

Recommendations by the Ombudsman to tackle the problem have been shelved over several years.

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WA Minister ADMITS MISLEADING Parliament - Australia lied to by Prime Minister Gillard - Minister Redman, Minister O'Brien, Premier Barnett, Minister Bowen, Minister O'Connor, Prime Minister Gillard MUST RESIGN IMMEDIATELY. Scandal-in-waiting.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 11/08/2011 - 4:31pm

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Thursday, 11 August 2011 2:12 PM

MEDIA RELEASE FROM GERRY GEORGATOS AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS ALLIANCE:

MINISTER TERRY REDMAN, MINISTER SIMON O'BRIEN AND PREMIER BARNETT MUST RESIGN.

MINISTER CHRIS BOWEN, MINISTER BRENDAN O'CONNOR, ATTORNEY-GENERAL ROBERT MCCLELLAND MUST RESIGN.

PRIME MINISTER JULIA GILLARD HAS LIED TO THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE AND MUST RESIGN. MS GILLARD IMPRISONS CHILDREN IN ADULT PRISONS.

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HADI KURNIAWAN - one of 100 children in Australian adult prisons.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Thu, 07/07/2011 - 11:52pm

An impoverished Indonesian mother, in front of an Australian journalist, lies on a cement floor clutching a photograph of her 16 year old son who is now in an Australian adult prison and whom she hasn't seen since he was fourteen. Abject and acute poverty ravages Indonesia, a country where only 10% of the population has a refrigerator, where most people do not have electricity let alone a television, where many people live half lives working in sulphur mines and where most folk will never rise out of the shanty towns and villages they are born to die in.

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Children accused and sentenced as 'people smugglers' - Children in Australian adult prisons. Children or adults? Hero humanitarians or impoverished 'smugglers' (crew)? Law is an ass when age determination practices do not go beyond reasonable doubt.

Submitted by Gerry Georgatos on Mon, 13/06/2011 - 4:12pm

Indonesian 'crew' who assist in the passage of Asylum Seekers are charged with 'people smuggling' by Australian authorities. However there shall come a time when members of the legal fraternity will raise the question as to the legal standing of these charges. If the passengers who are seeking Asylum are for instance all granted refugee visas and security clearances by Australia then how is it possible for anyone to be charged with 'people smuggling'?

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