Was Rodney Adler Set-up in prison by a person or persons unknown?NSW: Sydney businessman Rodney Adler has been transferred to a higher-security prison as punishment for allegedly attempting to conduct business activities from jail even though people are sent to prison for punishment not to be punished?
But Rodney Adler is most likely being punished by someone else and this is just an excuse made up by the Department of Corrective Services Commissioner, Rotten Ron Woodham. Possibly for and on behalf of another person or persons unknown [politicians, NSW Parliament House.] Someone who resides outside the prison but who has links with the authorities and or Ron Woodham himself who can pull the strings and make the necessary arrangements.
If you ask me it would most likely be a government minister who's pushing the buttons but only an independent enquiry may discover the real facts.
So unless Rotten Ron can point us to the proof and then make that proof public then I wouldn't rush out to buy the departments story!
High profile prisoners in NSW have been mistreated like this now for some time and there is ample evidence of it in numerous cases including that of Ivan Milat and Phuong Ngo.
Where the Norm is Not the Norm: HARM-U
One case in particular that went before the Supreme Court of NSW R v Georgiou, 70317 of 2001, (1 December 2003).
The triviality of the alleged 3 phones he was suppose t have is only half the story - the Department could not factually verify that Georgiou ever had phones in his cell, had never investigated the matter, and had never charged Georgiou for such an offence.
Further, when examined by James J, John Salway for the Department conceded that he was 'not sure' whether the Commissioner had designated Georgiou because he constituted an extreme danger to other people (cl 25 (2)(a)), or because he constituted an extreme threat to good order and security (cl 25 (2)(b)), or both.
However, the Department and the prosecution were not finished -- there was another reason for the designation: 'Yes your Honour. On the basis of risk, perceived risk of escape, for the good order of the institution.'18
Unfortunately for the Department, or rather unfortunately for Konstantinos Georgiou who has now spent more than 16 months in the HRMU, the Department has never classified Georgiou as an escape risk.
Of course, for an E1 or E2 classification to be made pursuant to cl 24 Crimes (Administration of Sentence) Regulation, evidence would need to be tendered -- an unnecessary obstacle to Commissioner Woodham when designating 'high risk' prisoners.
However, as it became obvious to the court that Georgiou's placement was baseless, Mark Phillip Wilson tendered in affidavit:
The Department of Correctional Services says Adler was at one stage caught in such an attempt while pretending to help his children with their homework.
Adler is serving a two-and-a-half year jail term over the collapse of insurance company HIH and has been banned from acting as a company director for the next 20 years.
He was serving the sentence at the Kirkconnell prison camp but has now been moved to Bathurst Correctional Centre.
The Correctional Services Department say they have forwarded a report on his conduct in prison to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions for further investigation.
But Similar claims were made by the Department of Corrective Services that police were going to interview Ivan Milat over some allegation but that never happened all that happened was there was a 'media release'?
So these authorities should forward the same report to an independent person or body to verify the claims they're making and if they don't show proof then they must come clean about what this matter is really about. And whether in fact this complaint was initiated by someone outside the prison.
Most prisoners of the Adler class would not get into any trouble in the prison system unless provoked or incited by the system itself or another less educated prisoner.
By Just Us 19 June 05
Newspaper bullies destroy people's lives!
NSW: Who's policing corporate media? Have police the means to prosecute them? Have you been a victim of newspaper abuse? Please make a comment and send your complaint to the Daily Terrorist, the police and ATTORNEY GENERAL Bob Debus!
Where the Norm is Not the Norm: HARM-U
In the absence of public policy, this paper is an attempt to shine a light through the rhetoric and test for coherency in the policy and function of NSW’s only supermax prison, the High Risk Management Unit. Its present use will be compared with the ‘vision’ flogged by the Premier and the Department of Corrective Services (the Department) at its inception in 2001.
Department of Corrective Services fails to rehabilitate offenders
NSW: Unpopular people will be forced to wear tracking devices at a cost of $5,000 dollars per unit because the NSW Department of Corrective Services failed to rehabilitate those offenders at a cost of $65,000 a year while they were held in custody for many years.
Parole Board Membership
NSW: The Law Society is aware that two former long standing police officers Mr Robert Inkster, an Mr Peter Walsh, were appointed to the Parole Board as Community Members for a period of three years from 17 January 2005 until 16 January 2008.
Corrected or Corrupted
A psychiatrist from the prison Mental Health Team attached to Queensland Health made the comment that 25 per cent of inmates suffer from a diagnosed mental illness.
ICOPA XI International Conference on Penal Abolition
We are excited to announce that ICOPA X1, the eleventh International Conference on Penal Abolition will happen in Tasmania, Australia from February 9 - 11,2006. Please pass this onto all networks.
Ex-Prisoner Locked Out of Prison
The NSW Department of Corrective Services (DCS) has revealed a policy which bans ex-prisoners from entering prisons.
Justice Action: Access to our community
NSW: Justice Action went to the NSW Supreme Court before the last Federal election on the constitutional right for prisoners to receive information for their vote. The government avoided the hearing by bringing prisoners' mobile polling booths forward. We pursued it after the election. This is the report.
MORE PRISONERS LOCKDOWNS HAVE OFFICERS ON EDGE
NSW POLICE Commissioner Ken Moroney has issued an ultimatum as well, to the lawless youths holding Sydney's streets to ransom?: Learn some respect or face jail?
Tough line on crime fills jails
The tough law-and-order policies of governments around the nation are behind an explosion in the prison population by almost 80 per cent in the past two decades.
FAMILIES OF PRISONERS FORUM
14,500 children in NSW go to bed each night with a parent in prison!
LEGAL VISITS AT PARKLEA PRISON
I am a prisoner in NSW and I am currently held in Parklea Prison. I am concerned about what is going on in NSW prisons and this is my story.
Parklea Prison: No calls for six days
The last calls that were made out of Parklea Correctional Complex by my partner, an inmate in remand at Parklea, was on Wednesday 2 February. The phone lines for the inmates have been out of service to this date.
Prison visits in crisis in NSW
The reason I am writing today is to address a difficult situation that my husband and my family are going through. My husband is currently serving a sentence at Lithgow Correctional Centre in NSW.
Prison boom will prove a social bust
Hardened criminals are not filling NSW's prisons - the mentally ill and socially disadvantaged are, writes Eileen Baldry.
The prison system requires assiduous oversight
As NSW Attorney General Bob Debus noted in 1996: "The kinds of complaints which occur in the system may seem trivial to outsiders but in the superheated world of the prison, such issues can produce explosive results."
Crime and Punishment
Mark Findlay argues that the present psychological approach to prison programs is increasing the likelihood of re-offending and the threat to community safety.
Justice Denied In NSW Corrective Services
There used to be a (VJ) or Visiting Justice who would go into the prison and judge any claim or accusation that was made by any prisoner or prison guard. If it were found that a prisoner had offended then punishment was metered out.
Prison guards test positive for drugs
NSW prison visitors banned from using the toilet The visit is only for about one hour and any thing less than that is an insult. If it's proved that a visitor has broken the rules the punishment should apply to them. But collective punishment on all visitors should not be made general when others haven't broken the rules especially if it restricts all visitors from normal human needs like using a toilet.
NSW prison visitors banned from using the toilet
The New South Wales Government has introduced several initiatives to stop contraband getting into prisons they said last Friday. But under the guise of "stricter rules" the department had also introduced banning all visitors including children from using the toilet unless they terminate their visit at any NSW prison after using the toilet.
Watchdogs slaughtered in NSW
On Tuesday the Carr Government reduced transparency and accountability yet again and New South Wales is in danger of becoming entrenched with cronyism and intimidations with the Carr Labor Government that continues to slaughter the watchdogs.
