Statistics compiled by the union from Hakea workers 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 operating at 30 to 40 workers quick day by day.
“We’re seeing an increasing number of workers getting injured at work, an increasing number of violence at work which is growing in opposition to workers,” he mentioned.
“The extraordinarily excessive self-harm statistics is an enormous 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 nearly crushed to loss of life after which carry out first support on their blood-covered our bodies.”
He blasted a request by administration to make sure prisoners spent extra day out of their cells with out the promise of further staffing and accused Corrective Providers of prioritising price range over the security of jail workers and prisoners.
“Sadly this kind 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 typically this extraordinarily short-sighted strategy is pushed by the general public sector.”
“Why does Hakea [management] hate their workers a lot?
Hanlon instructed WAtoday that if the problem wasn’t resolved shortly, like by pay incentives reminiscent of these on provide to guards who work in Banksia Hill and Unit 18, a serious incident may occur and take Hakea offline for months.
The Division of Justice mentioned Greenough would retain some capability for ladies to be acquired from courtroom, for visits and launch.
“The position of ladies prisoners relocated from Greenough might be rigorously managed in
consideration of their welfare and cultural wants,” Royce mentioned.
“They’ll proceed to have entry to packages and companies at their new services.”