Mr ADAMSON - 1997-04-29
Can he advise members about the current program, involving inmates from the Darwin Correctional Centre, to clean up the foreshore and CBD areas of Darwin and, on a personal note, can he assure me that the Casuarina electorate will receive its fair share of this attention?
ANSWER
Mr Speaker, as members will be aware, recently we initiated programs for low-security prisoners to do some work in the community ...
Ms Martin: How many low-security prisoners?
Mr HATTON: If you listen, you will find out. Why do you keep interrupting and changing the message I am trying to give people? Sit there and listen, and you may learn something.
Day-release work gangs from the Darwin Correctional Centre are removing rubbish from the foreshores and the CBD as part of Operation Shine, in conjunction with Darwin City Council. This program started on 27 April and already almost a tonne of rubbish has been collected from the foreshore. Operation Shine currently has 15 low-security inmates from the
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main prison working around the foreshores and the CBD. Offenders serving community service orders will also be contributing in working groups separate from the inmates. The inmates are supervised by Correctional Services staff and have all been assessed to ensure that they are trustworthy. Operation Shine is a dedicated project, additional to normal community work carried out by inmates.
I shall raise the matter of the Casuarina electorate with the Director of Correctional Services. I am sure that areas such as the Casuarina foreshore, in particular ...
Mr Bailey: There is my electorate also.
Mr HATTON: I forgot that your electorate goes down to the Rapid Creek bridge. We will even clean up yours too. Somebody has to look after your electorate, and we will do it.
Operation Shine includes day-release work prisoners from Darwin prison and enables them to put something back into the community and the community to obtain some benefit for its money. This follows the work done by prisoners in such programs as the graffiti hotline. I urge any citizens who see graffiti around the place to ring the graffiti hotline through the Department of Correctional Services to enable us to have our work gangs clean it up as soon as possible. One sure deterrent for graffiti artists is to deprive them of the pleasure of seeing their work.
These programs follow what is known in New York City as the `broken windows' theory. The cleaner and tidier a place is, the less likely is it to provide an environment that encourages street crime, which in turn develops into more serious crime. I can assure members that we will be continuing to work to ensure that, as far as is possible, the community is getting something back for the taxpayer dollars that are spent to keep people in prisons.
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ANSWER
Mr Speaker, as members will be aware, recently we initiated programs for low-security prisoners to do some work in the community ...
Ms Martin: How many low-security prisoners?
Mr HATTON: If you listen, you will find out. Why do you keep interrupting and changing the message I am trying to give people? Sit there and listen, and you may learn something.
Day-release work gangs from the Darwin Correctional Centre are removing rubbish from the foreshores and the CBD as part of Operation Shine, in conjunction with Darwin City Council. This program started on 27 April and already almost a tonne of rubbish has been collected from the foreshore. Operation Shine currently has 15 low-security inmates from the
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main prison working around the foreshores and the CBD. Offenders serving community service orders will also be contributing in working groups separate from the inmates. The inmates are supervised by Correctional Services staff and have all been assessed to ensure that they are trustworthy. Operation Shine is a dedicated project, additional to normal community work carried out by inmates.
I shall raise the matter of the Casuarina electorate with the Director of Correctional Services. I am sure that areas such as the Casuarina foreshore, in particular ...
Mr Bailey: There is my electorate also.
Mr HATTON: I forgot that your electorate goes down to the Rapid Creek bridge. We will even clean up yours too. Somebody has to look after your electorate, and we will do it.
Operation Shine includes day-release work prisoners from Darwin prison and enables them to put something back into the community and the community to obtain some benefit for its money. This follows the work done by prisoners in such programs as the graffiti hotline. I urge any citizens who see graffiti around the place to ring the graffiti hotline through the Department of Correctional Services to enable us to have our work gangs clean it up as soon as possible. One sure deterrent for graffiti artists is to deprive them of the pleasure of seeing their work.
These programs follow what is known in New York City as the `broken windows' theory. The cleaner and tidier a place is, the less likely is it to provide an environment that encourages street crime, which in turn develops into more serious crime. I can assure members that we will be continuing to work to ensure that, as far as is possible, the community is getting something back for the taxpayer dollars that are spent to keep people in prisons.
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