Greens MLC Lee Rhiannon tody moved a motion in the NSW Upper House to block a regulation creating a new prisoner classification for prisoners considered security threats.
She said the regulation represents "shades of Guantanamo Bay", with the Carr government using draconian measures which fed the resentment and unfairness that caused terrorism.
Her disallowance motion was defeated 32-4.
The regulation, created by NSW justice minister John Hatzitergos, grants Correctice Services Commissioner Ron Woodham the power to determine how prisoners should be classified?
Regulations are usually created by government ministers and don't go through parliament, but parliament does have the power to disallow them.
Under Hatzistergos' regulation, prisoners classified as "posing a threat to national security" will be housed only in highest security facilities. NSW (HRMU) High Risk Management Unit at Goulburn Correctional Centre in isolation in a "box within a box" with "no fresh air or sunlight".
They will not have contact visits unless they are deemed safe? And mail with be screened?
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Ms Rhiannon said the new powers should have been drafted as legislation, properly debated and understood by the parliament.
"There are shades of Guantanamo Bay here," she said.
"Like George Bush, the Carr government is using unnecessary, draconian measures which feed the resentment and unfairness that cause terrorism. This is no solution."
[Terrorists like George Bush's Patriot Act and the Coalition of the Killing's resource war's in the Middle East, with pre-war plans, pre-emptive attacks on Sovereign Nation States, subsequent occupations, genocide, maiming, rendition, secret prisons and torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. Those are terrorist acts.]
Ms Rhiannon said anti-terrorism experts should be deciding who poses a security threat not Mr Woodham.
"Commissioner Woodham's job is to manage jails, not manage national security. The rules don't even require him to liase with other agencies that actually understand terrorism," Ms Rhiannon said.
Hatzistergos said the new management regime "was a central plank in NSW's terrorism preparedness".
"This regime is in accordance with world standards for dealing with terrorists in custody," he said.
"And the definition is broad enough to include inmates, [prisoners], serving sentences for non-terrorist offences who subsequently exhibit behaviour which potentially poses a risk to national security of the security of a correctional centre"?
ACCORDING TO COMMISSIONER RON WOODHAM WHO IS TOLD WHAT TO DO BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY AND WHOEVER ELSE WHO WANTS TO PAY OUT ON SERVING PRISONERS INCLUDING POLICE!
By Just Us 11 November 04
The Greens NSW
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