Record NSW prison population, rising assault rate, show a system ‘in a crisis’ – The Sydney Morning Herald
31 January 2017
É«ÀÇÉçÇøGeneral Secretary Stewart Little told the Sydney Morning Herald that overcrowding in the state’s prisons are seeing prisoners three up in cells. A recipe for disaster.
“It’s increasing the risks for [staff] at work. Assault rates have dramatically escalated, both inmate on inmate and – of particular concern to us – inmate on officer, and it’s just unacceptable.”