Since colonial times Australia has been an incarceration nation where lock ’em up is preferred to rehabilitation – Julianne Schultz (www.theguardian.com)

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The fearful reaction to the high court decision that people cannot be held in indefinite detention is a classic example

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[-] LineNoise@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

We’ve actually got an even bigger private prison issue than the US by proportion.

Nearly 40 per cent of Victoria’s prisoner population is housed in three privately managed prisons – Port Philip Prison, Ravenhall Correctional Centre and Fulham Correctional Centre. As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world.

https://lens.monash.edu/@politics-society/2019/06/28/1375605/victorias-prison-system-rising-costs-and-population-little-accountability

The lobby doesn’t have quite the same financial clout just on population size but it’s a significant factor in Australia’s modern handling of the issue.

[-] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Wtf...

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