Jails aren’t pleasant places. But those who work in them and are forced to live in them should at least be safe from abuses of power.
In NSW, the prison system doesn’t get much attention in public debate. The wider community doesn’t know, or perhaps care much about jails.
It should, like all government departments – and perhaps more than most – be setting a high standard for the treatment of its staff and of those for whom it has a duty of care.of female staff within Corrective Services, involving behaviour that would never be tolerated in corporate Australia. Women who are simply trying to do their job in a difficult environment have been crudely and directly propositioned for sex by their superiors.
In a submission to the inquiry, CSNSW identified 14 sites in which there had been problem levels of staff-on-staff sexual misconduct. In 2022 it commissioned the Seymour Review of a central west prison where an employee was found to have harassed staff. It refuses to release the results.
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