Statistics compiled by the union from Hakea employees over the previous six months present there was 5 indecent and sexual assaults, 177 bodily assaults, 160 self-harm incidents, 12 tried suicides, 9 fires lit, 45 weapons discovered and 4 rooftop incidents.
The union additionally recorded 28 incidents involving “chemical brokers”, two deaths in custody and two main jail disturbances.
Union assistant secretary Beven Hanlon emailed Hakea senior administration this week and mentioned there have been greater than 1000 prisoners in Hakea, nevertheless it was constantly working at 30 to 40 employees quick day-after-day.
“We’re seeing increasingly employees getting injured at work, increasingly violence at work which is rising in opposition to employees,” he mentioned.
“The extraordinarily excessive self-harm statistics is a large purple flag for any supervisor that’s involved about well being of their jail,
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“It’s our members that reply to those conditions, it’s our members which have to chop these individuals down and carry out lifesaving first support or discover these prisoners virtually overwhelmed to demise after which carry out first support on their blood-covered our bodies.”
He blasted a request by administration to make sure prisoners spent extra trip of their cells with out the promise of further staffing and accused Corrective Companies of prioritising funds over the security of jail employees and prisoners.
“Sadly the sort of decline in a jail service is nothing new, nevertheless, it’s usually pushed by the non-public sector of their chase for earnings over individuals,” he mentioned.
“It isn’t usually this extraordinarily short-sighted strategy is pushed by the general public sector.”
“Why does Hakea [management] hate their employees a lot?
Hanlon instructed WAtoday that if the problem wasn’t resolved rapidly, like via pay incentives similar to these on provide to guards who work in Banksia Hill and Unit 18, a significant incident might occur and take Hakea offline for months.
The Division of Justice mentioned Greenough would retain some capability for girls to be acquired from courtroom, for visits and launch.
“The position of girls prisoners relocated from Greenough will likely be rigorously managed in
consideration of their welfare and cultural wants,” Royce mentioned.
“They’ll proceed to have entry to applications and providers at their new amenities.”