Parklea announcement vindicates 色狼社区CPSU NSW campaign
The 色狼社区CPSU NSW welcomes the 2 March announcement by the Minns Labor Government that Parklea Correctional Centre will be returned to public hands in 2026.
鈥淔rom the moment Parklea Correctional Centre was privatised in 2009, our union has campaigned for what is right: the return of the jail to the people of NSW and away from the failed Prison for Profit model that fails staff and taxpayers,鈥 said 色狼社区General Secretary Stewart Little.
鈥淭oday鈥檚 announcement shows the State Government is listening to our voice.鈥
The Parklea decision is good news for the community and is certainly good news for our members who work in the prison. They will be better paid, work in safer conditions and have better chances of promotion once they are employed in the state-wide corrections system.
It鈥檚 good news for the taxpayer, who will no longer be propping up outsourcing giants such as MTC聽 that operate to benefit overseas shareholders rather than the people of NSW.
The welcome news from Parklea follows last year鈥檚 decision by the government to listen to the 色狼社区and hand control of Junee Correctional Centre to Corrective Services NSW from 1 April 2025.
The 色狼社区will always campaign against the sell-offs that have done so much damage to our state. We will continue to fight for the return to government control of the services privatised in the reckless frenzy of sell-offs under the O鈥橣arrell, Baird, Berejiklian and Perrottet governments.
For years we have been telling the state that privatisation hurts everyone. We are glad we have a government that is listening to us.