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	Victorian Auditor-General's Office (Australia)
		Prisoner numbers have increased by over 19 per cent over the last 4 years to the point that by April 1999 the overall prison occupancy rate had reached 98.9 per cent and a total of 121 temporary stretcher beds or mattress places had to be used across 6 prisons to alleviate capacity shortages.
		Financial penalties to the contractor responsible for Port Phillip Prison have been minimal even though serious deficiencies at the prison were not fully addressed for over a year and involved significant monitoring costs to the Government.
		Prisoners who commit a "minor" drug offence for the first time in prison such as for cannabis use, should receive a lesser penalty than that received by a hard drug user.
	www.audit.vic.gov.au /old/sr60/ags60brf.htm (1633 words)

	Newsletter 15, March 1998 - People's Justice Alliance
		The fact that the Port Phillip Prison and the Fulham Correctional Centre could be designed and built in blatant defiance of the recommendations into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody is another expression of the genocidal racism that is so entrenched in the Australian "criminal justice" system.
		Prisoners and their families have also reported difficulties with visits, and the distance of the prison from the metropolitan prison has had a negative impact in terms of lawyers attending the prison.
		Prison sources said that before his death, Mr Holt was treated "worse than a dog", chained at the hands and feet and forced to wear a mask.
	home.vicnet.net.au /~pjan/news/pja15004.htm (5123 words)

	PR962367
		Remand prisoners are however encouraged to enter into a work program and in other respects are treated the same as a sentenced prisoner in relation to work.
		The relationship between GSL and Mr Conway is one of prisoner and custodial delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Justice.
		[29] It is not in dispute that the Governor of Port Phillip Prison is an employee of GSL.
	www.airc.gov.au /decisionssigned/html/PR962367.htm (3167 words)

	GSL Contracts and Services (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Prisoners with different needs are housed in 13 self-contained accommodation units and the prison includes a 35-bed psycho-social unit for prisoners with intellectual disabilities, and a youth unit housing 60 young offenders aged 17-25, which allows them to be separated from older prisoners.
		Prisoners are held in a variety of accommodation configurations, ranging from 27-bed cell blocks to two-bed self-contained cottages.
		GSL's Headquarters for the SAPMICM contract is in Adelaide, with regional depots in Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Cadell and Mt Gambier.
	www.gslpl.com.au /gsl/contracts/contracts.asp (1799 words)

	Community Liaison and Education Unit
		Public heath in prisons focuses on the health of the population and aims to promote the health of this unique cohort, using sound epidemiological-evidence.
		Prisoners' health status is generally lower than that of the general population.
		The prison health care system is a window of opportunity to screen, identify and treat infectious diseases especially blood-borne viruses and sexually transmitted infections.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /cleu/prison_report.htm (1549 words)

	Port Phillip Correctional Centre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port Phillip Correctional Centre is a maximum security prison located at Laverton, Victoria, Australia.
		Port Phillip Correctional Centre is the primary remand prison for Victoria and also has specialist accommodation for prisoners with physical and intellectual disabilities, hospital services and specialist, management and security units.
		The prison is separated into thirteen accommodation units including a youth unit for young adult inmates aged 18-25.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Phillip_Correctional_Centre (340 words)

	Prison Privatisation Report International
		The prison officer who did not pass gave evidence (that was not contradicted by other evidence) that he was then told the answers to the questions.
		One example of this was the evidence of two prison officers in charge of the prisoners, including the deceased, on the night the deceased died, that they had been ordered to take time away from their duties...
		In addition to removing people from the community for the safety of the community, one of the stated purposes of prison is to prepare the people who are in prison for reintegration into the community once their sentences have been served.
	www.psiru.org /justice/ppri56.asp (6087 words)

	Victorian Auditor-General's Office (Australia)
		Prison operators at Port Phillip and Dhurringile Prisons should monitor kitchen staff's compliance with appropriate personal hygiene practices, including wearing clean uniforms and aprons and use of gloves and hair nets, to ensure the safe preparation of food.
		The extent to which security poses a risk both within prisons in terms of fellow inmates and prison management as well as to the wider community is essentially dependent on the type of prison in question and the adequacy of the procedures in place.
		Prisoners are, in general, a group with poor health status who commonly bring with them into custody a range of issues such as high levels of alcohol and other drug use.
	www.audit.vic.gov.au /old/sr60/ags6008.htm (16483 words)

	HM Prison Pentridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The prison officially closed on May 1, 1997.
		The prison was split into many divisions, named using letters of the alphabet.
		The furnishings were sparse and prisoners exercised in aviary-like escape proof yards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HM_Prison_Pentridge (829 words)

	University's forensic psychology program goes to prison : Media Releases : News : The University of Melbourne
		The rehabilitation of prisoners at Port Phillip Prison will take on a new dimension with the commencement of a partnership between the forensic psychology program of the University of Melbourne and the operators of the prison.
		The partnership will see the appointment by Port Phillip Prison of a Senior Psychologist and the placement of third-year Doctorate of Psychology students as part of their clinical training.
		Anderson said the initiative was a serious and concerted attempt to establish a further enhanced and beneficial counselling service within Port Phillip prison as well as providing excellent development and placement opportunities for senior University of Melbourne Doctorate of Psychology students in an actual correctional services environment.
	uninews.unimelb.edu.au /articleid_37.html (471 words)

	Prisoners play violent games - Quarter To Three Forums
		Privately operated Port Phillip houses some of the state's most feared prisoners, including Russell St bomber Craig Minogue, armed robbers Hugo Rich and Victor Brincat and murderer Raymond "Mr Stinky" Edmunds.
		Among games on a list circulated to prisoners is Grand Theft Auto in which the player assumes the identity of a criminal to blow up buildings before racing through streets with police in pursuit.
		Port Phillip Prison ignited controversy earlier this year with a move to install ice cream machines for inmates.
	www.quartertothree.com /game-talk/showthread.php?t=359 (1278 words)

	PR933177
		[3] Correctional Officers at Port Phillip Prison have passed a resolution that requires that all Correctional Staff be trained in the procedures for the revised arrangements as a condition of their implementation in Port Phillip.
		This is in spite of the fact that, like Port Phillip, not all staff in each of the other prisons have been trained in the procedures for the revised arrangements.
		I strongly recommend that the CPSU members at Port Phillip Prison arrange to withdraw their resolution and commence working the revised arrangements for prisoner escorts.
	www.airc.gov.au /alldocuments/PR933177.htm (318 words)

	Free Marcus Brumer
		This prison is a private one run for profit by an American company, (Group 4, I think) It is an improvement on the MAP.
		Some of the Asian prisoners cook up great stir-fries in a wok and sit down on the floor of their cell for a communal meal, laying down newspaper under the dishes.
		Phillip Morris sits pretty on Southbank whilst the prison system undergoes a crisis with overcrowded police cells and prisons full of drug users nailed for drug use or drug-related crime.
	www.geocities.com /piesnotbatons (1981 words)

	Green Left - Issues: Victorian private prison deaths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Port Phillip Prison, like the Fulham (private) Correctional Centre, has been built with hanging points in the majority of cells; 580 cells at Port Phillip and 490 cells at Fulham have horizontal metal bars on the inside of the windows and a solid shower screen -- both hanging points.
		In Port Phillip Prison the shower screens provide additional hanging points; it was from the shower screens that two young men (George Drinken and Adam Irwin) were found hanging.
		There are only eight staff working during night shifts at the Port Phillip: eight staff to monitor and respond to emergencies in a prison with almost 600 male prisoners consisting of remand, high security, sentenced, intellectually disabled and vulnerable prisoners and protection prisoners.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1998/305/21984 (938 words)

	Green Left - Death in custody in private prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Port Phillip Prison, a 600-cell maximum security and remand prison in the outer western suburb of Laverton, was opened on August 18 and has been receiving prisoners only in the last six weeks.
		Drinken's death is the first suicide in a private prison in Victoria, and the 18th death in custody in a private prison in Australia since 1992.
		The director of Group 4, the company operating the Port Phillip Prison, when questioned by the Corrections Working Group of the Federation of Community Legal Centres about these hanging points, replied that the bars were necessary for the purposes of “waterproofing the building”.
	www.greenleft.org.au /1997/298/15469 (410 words)

	Prisoner left death note in cell \| Sunday Herald Sun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Westcott had been on remand at Port Phillip on dishonesty charges since July 2005, waiting to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates' Court in December that year.
		The court heard he had suffered from asthma since childhood and his medical file was in the prison system as he had previously served a term.
		But the director of medical services at Port Phillip Prison yesterday said she did not receive Westcott's prison medical file until after his death in November 2005 -- 4 1/2 months after his arrival.
	www.news.com.au /heraldsun/story/0,21985,20838647-661,00.html (495 words)

	PPW: (Index) 17 June 98 - Private Prison Watch News Briefs
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		PRISON BILL AMONG GOVERNOR'S VETOES - OK Bill 3083 would have eased return of private prisons to public control 3.
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	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/1998-June/001984.html (501 words)

	CPSU SPSF Group Victorian Branch (All)
		As MAP is not in compliance with the MOU regarding use of casuals, the issue of agreed rosters must be dealt with as part of 9/80.
		The Australian Electoral Commission has mailed ballot papers TO ALL UNION MEMBERS at Port Phillip Prison with the ballot closing at 10AM on Monday 20th November 2006.
		PRISON BLUES - Port Phillip Prison - Protected Industral Action Ballot Ordered.
	www.cpsuvic.org (706 words)

	Authorities investigate Port Phillip prison death
		Corrections Victoria has ordered an urgent interim report into the death of 55-year-old inmate at Port Phillip Prison last weekend.
		"This is a situation where a prisoner was seeking urgent medical assistance pressing the button did not work," he said.
		He says all intercoms in prison cells are now being tested to ensure they are functioning correctly.
	www.abc.net.au /news/items/200511/1519687.htm?victoria (146 words)

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