❓ A WA parliamentary question on notice regarding prisoner classifications, capacity, staffing levels, and related issues at Bunbury Regional Prison. The answer provides details on the classification process, prisoner numbers, staffing, and reasons for staffing shortages.
AnsweredQoN 2486Legislative Assembly
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(1) What are the classifications (e.g. what crimes committed) for the varying levels of security prisoners are placed in?
(2) What are the classifications (crimes committed) allowed for the minimum-security prisoners placed at Bunbury Regional Prison?
(3) Are any current prisoners at Bunbury Regional Prison not classified for a minimum-security prison?
(4) What is the current capacity of Bunbury Regional Prison?
(5) What is the current population?
(6) Has Bunbury Regional Prison’s population exceeded its capacity in the past 12 months?
(7) How many full-time equivalent staff members are currently employed at Bunbury Regional Prison?
(8) What is the recommended staff-to-prisoner ratio of a minimum-security prison?
(9) If there is not a full complement of staff at Bunbury Regional Prison, what has caused the shortage?
(2) What are the classifications (crimes committed) allowed for the minimum-security prisoners placed at Bunbury Regional Prison?
(3) Are any current prisoners at Bunbury Regional Prison not classified for a minimum-security prison?
(4) What is the current capacity of Bunbury Regional Prison?
(5) What is the current population?
(6) Has Bunbury Regional Prison’s population exceeded its capacity in the past 12 months?
(7) How many full-time equivalent staff members are currently employed at Bunbury Regional Prison?
(8) What is the recommended staff-to-prisoner ratio of a minimum-security prison?
(9) If there is not a full complement of staff at Bunbury Regional Prison, what has caused the shortage?
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Answered
14 August 2007
Responded by
Minister for Corrective Services
Response time
54 days
1. The classification process used to determine a prisoner's security rating is comprehensive and the assessment practice is significantly more complex than simply considering the offence committed. A 'Management and Placement' checklist for sentenced prisoners is completed to determine the initial security rating and placement for each sentenced prisoner. A Classification Review checklist is completed either six or twelve months later or if there is a change in the prisoner's circumstances, to review the prisoner's security rating.
Information used to complete the Checklists and produce a security rating is based on the offence committed, and static and dynamic factors, each assigned a numerical value to produce calculated security classification, including:
1). Seriousness of the offence
2). Serious offence history
3). Escape/attempted escape history and offences committed at large
4). History of institutional violence
5). Effective sentence left to serve
6). Further external court pending
7). Prison charges pending
8). Disciplinary convictions
9). Stability factors (i.e. employment, accommodation, education)
10). Family/community relationships
11). Prison Industrial/Education Report
12). Treatment program performance
2. See Question 1.
3. Bunbury Regional Prison is a medium security facility with a minimum security area. As at 26 June 2007, Bunbury Regional Prison contained 47 minimum security prisoners, 150 medium security prisoners and 4 maximum security prisoners. The 4 maximum security prisoners are temporarily placed at Bunbury Regional Prison; 3 are on remand and the fourth, a sentenced prisoner, has been remanded for further charges.
4. The current design capacity of Bunbury Regional Prison is 188 beds, with a temporary modified capacity of 207 beds.
5. The current prisoner population at Bunbury Regional Prison on Friday 6 July 2007 was 205 prisoners.
6. Yes.
7. As at 2 July 2007, there were effectively 96 FTE staff currently employed at Bunbury Regional Prison.
8. There is no recommended staff-to-prisoner ratio for any level of security. Staff levels are dependent on various factors including the operational needs of the Department, the perceived risks to both prison staff and the community in general and any design peculiarities at individual prisons.
9. The staffing complement at Bunbury Regional Prison is below full strength. Staff availability at Bunbury Regional Prison is affected by sick leave, secondments, purchased leave entitlements, promotional vacancies and the need for additional staff to deal with the increased prisoner population.
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Information used to complete the Checklists and produce a security rating is based on the offence committed, and static and dynamic factors, each assigned a numerical value to produce calculated security classification, including:
1). Seriousness of the offence
2). Serious offence history
3). Escape/attempted escape history and offences committed at large
4). History of institutional violence
5). Effective sentence left to serve
6). Further external court pending
7). Prison charges pending
8). Disciplinary convictions
9). Stability factors (i.e. employment, accommodation, education)
10). Family/community relationships
11). Prison Industrial/Education Report
12). Treatment program performance
2. See Question 1.
3. Bunbury Regional Prison is a medium security facility with a minimum security area. As at 26 June 2007, Bunbury Regional Prison contained 47 minimum security prisoners, 150 medium security prisoners and 4 maximum security prisoners. The 4 maximum security prisoners are temporarily placed at Bunbury Regional Prison; 3 are on remand and the fourth, a sentenced prisoner, has been remanded for further charges.
4. The current design capacity of Bunbury Regional Prison is 188 beds, with a temporary modified capacity of 207 beds.
5. The current prisoner population at Bunbury Regional Prison on Friday 6 July 2007 was 205 prisoners.
6. Yes.
7. As at 2 July 2007, there were effectively 96 FTE staff currently employed at Bunbury Regional Prison.
8. There is no recommended staff-to-prisoner ratio for any level of security. Staff levels are dependent on various factors including the operational needs of the Department, the perceived risks to both prison staff and the community in general and any design peculiarities at individual prisons.
9. The staffing complement at Bunbury Regional Prison is below full strength. Staff availability at Bunbury Regional Prison is affected by sick leave, secondments, purchased leave entitlements, promotional vacancies and the need for additional staff to deal with the increased prisoner population.
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