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❓ Question regarding prisoner numbers, cell sharing, staffing vacancies, and reported assaults at Bunbury Regional Prison as of October 2015. The Department of Corrective Services provides specific figures for each query.

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Asked

20 October 2015

Member

Hon Adele Farina

Portfolio

Corrective Services

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I refer to the Bunbury Regional Prison, and I ask: (a) as at 1 October 2015, how many prisoners were detained at Bunbury Regional Prison; (b) how many of these prisoners shared a cell; (c) as at 1 October 2015, how many prison officer positions were vacant; (d) how many prison officer positions are currently vacant; (e) in relation to each vacant position in (c) and (d), how long were the positions vacant; and (f) in 2015, how many assaults have been reported: (i) on a prisoner by another prisoner; (ii) on a prisoner by a prison officer; and (iii) on a prison officer by a prisoner?

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Answered

1 December 2015

Responded by

Attorney General representing the Minister for Corrective Services

Response time

42 days

The Department of Corrective Services advises:
(a) 295
(b) 142
(c) Three
(d) One
(e) Of the three vacant positions specified in (c), positions were vacant for one month, three months and four months. As for (d), the position is still vacant.
(f) (i) Six
(ii) Zero
(iii) Seven

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