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Public servants forced to rescue failed private prison
Public servants forced to rescue failed private prison
The Public Service Association (PSA) says no
more public money should be wasted on Serco following the
announcement that they will no longer be trusted to
administer their own prison.
The PSA is New Zealand’s largest union in corrections, representing 3000 staff at the Department of Corrections and 100 at Serco’s two private prisons.
Erin Polaczuk, PSA national secretary, said "The
Government is trusting public servants to come to the rescue
of this failed private prison,"
"Serco have completely
failed and their contract must be cancelled with immediate
effect.
"This litany of failures cannot be allowed to go unpunished, so Serco must be dumped and significant fines levied.
"Mt Eden must be brought back under public control, and the Government must commit to no more private prison experiments.
"New Zealanders will not accept private companies profiting further from people’s misery," said Erin Polaczuk.
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