Government to reverse bikie segregation in prisons! Last October, the Government passed the Vicious Lawless Association Disestablishment laws to target bikie gangs and other criminal groups. A month later, Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie introduced further laws to toughen bail rules for past gang members and extend the list of industries bikies were banned from working in. Mr Bleijie said at the time the laws would also enable prisons to segregate bikies. Today, Mr Newman said the Government would reverse those segregation arrangements. In the beginning we had great success in making this a safer place to raise a family and crime’s dropped about 10 per cent across the board, he said. Nevertheless, one bit of feedback we’ve continued to have is that some of the arrangements we’ve put in place to deal with bikies who were incarcerated in the prison system, in the corrections system, were not appropriate. Well be reversing those policy decisions. That involves uniform arrangements and indeed segregation arrangements inside the prisons. Mr Newman said the Government also wanted to improve its relationship with the judiciary and the wider legal profession. We acknowledge there has been some bad blood there in recent times. Ill be therefore seeking a meeting with the senior members of the leadership team, the Attorney-General and the heads of the legal profession and the judiciary to sit down and really mend some fences. To actually sit down and very much recognise that we must work together for the good of all the people of this state, we must respect one another.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 06:58:30 +0000
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