❓ Dr. Nahan questions the Premier's leadership regarding the Minister for Corrective Services' performance, citing incompetence and union influence. The Premier defends the adaptive regime in prisons and accuses the opposition of excusing prisoner riots.
AnsweredQoN 1007Legislative Assembly
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MINISTER FOR CORRECTIVE
SERVICES — PERFORMANCE
1007. Dr M.D. NAHAN to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Why
will the Premier not provide leadership, act in the best interests of Western Australians,
stand up to the unions and sack this incompetent minister?
SERVICES — PERFORMANCE
1007. Dr M.D. NAHAN to the Premier:
I have a supplementary question. Why
will the Premier not provide leadership, act in the best interests of Western Australians,
stand up to the unions and sack this incompetent minister?
AnswerView source ↗
What a silly comment from someone
who not more than an hour ago was defending the prisoners. He was defending
those people who escaped, rioted and threw Molotov cocktails. He was defending
them. Just so the Leader of the Opposition understands, because I do not think
he does, when an adaptive regime is put in place, prisoners are not locked in
their cells; they are locked in their units. In prison units there is space to
move, and tables and chairs. It is not a small cell; it is a place to socialise
and move around. On top of that, even when the adaptive regimes are put in
place, there are opportunities to go and do other activities, just not as much
as they would have liked.
To
say to me and to us, as the opposition did before, that somehow the fact that
prisoners who are in prison for serious offences in that circumstance are
entitled to riot and entitled to act in the way they did is, frankly,
disgusting.
who not more than an hour ago was defending the prisoners. He was defending
those people who escaped, rioted and threw Molotov cocktails. He was defending
them. Just so the Leader of the Opposition understands, because I do not think
he does, when an adaptive regime is put in place, prisoners are not locked in
their cells; they are locked in their units. In prison units there is space to
move, and tables and chairs. It is not a small cell; it is a place to socialise
and move around. On top of that, even when the adaptive regimes are put in
place, there are opportunities to go and do other activities, just not as much
as they would have liked.
To
say to me and to us, as the opposition did before, that somehow the fact that
prisoners who are in prison for serious offences in that circumstance are
entitled to riot and entitled to act in the way they did is, frankly,
disgusting.
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