Private prisons Archive

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  Second strike for private prison corporation - by frog

  
  
  
  There have now been two damning reports on G4s running of prisons and detention centres in the last couple of weeks.   G4S is a multinational private prison corporation that is in the bidding to run Mt Eden– Auckland Central remand prison.  This week – the British Chief Inspector of Prisons found that the G4S run Gatwick [...] read more
  July 16, 2010 10:43 am - 5 Comments
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  Better clothing won’t solve prison crisis - by David Clendon

  
  
  
  I sat in on the Law and Order Select Committee today, to hear what Minister Collins had to say about ‘Vote Corrections’. Their opening gambit was to present a ‘show and tell’, proudly displaying examples of her ‘solution’ to the growing violence in our prisons. read more
  June 16, 2010 5:31 pm - 5 Comments
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  Should the Govt profit from growing the prison muster? - by Russel Norman

  
  
  
  News that the Government’s New Zealand Superannuation Fund could be poised to invest $100 million jointly with Lloyd Morrison’s investment company will create the perverse situation where one part of Government will now profit from higher levels of incarceration. The Superfund currently invests in several major private prison operators overseas (Corrections Corporation of America, GEO Group, [...] read more
  April 16, 2010 12:48 pm - 23 Comments
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  Private Prisons are expensive and dangerous - by David Clendon

  
  
  
  Yesterday’s announcement that tenders will be called for a private prison to be built in Wiri follows the bulldozing through Parliament of enabling legislation last December. The Greens have opposed this move to privatising prisons, both as a matter of principle and for purely practical reasons. According to Minister Collins, we ‘need’ 2270 more prison [...] read more
  April 15, 2010 10:58 am - 33 Comments
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  Whitehead reveals Government’s Hand ?? - by Kennedy Graham

  
  
  
  In an interesting move the Treasury seems to be foreshadowing the Government’s privatisation agenda by yesterday putting out a press release of their CE’s speech which calls for change in the public sector. Given how closely the speech aligns with the Government’s rhetoric around the public sector and their ideological commitment to the private sector, [...] read more
  July 21, 2009 2:35 pm - 12 Comments
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  GEO Group record in private prisons – very very bad - by Metiria Turei

  
  
  
  One of the companies that is apparently in discussions with National to run a private prison is The GEO Group Inc. They ran the Auckland Central Remand Prison when it was privatised. John Key is reported as saying that they produced “very good results”. The GEO Group, Inc. is part of the The Wackenhut Corporation, [...] read more
  March 12, 2009 11:08 am - 27 Comments
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  The prison business - by frog

  
  
  
  Mr Key confirmed that National will allow competitive tendering for the management of prisons on a case-by-case basis. As Metiria notes: How is the free market the answer to the problems of running a prison system? The key to a successful business is repeat customers. That creates a perverse incentive. Yup, can you see Lock [...] read more
  October 28, 2008 4:54 pm - 40 Comments