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| Prison overcrowding risks public safety, Police Commissioner Gary Burns says |
| By heraldsun.com.au- Sheradyn Holderhead |
| Published: 06/23/2015 |
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PRISON overcrowding is risking public safety, the state’s top police officer says, as tension escalates between SAPOL and Corrections over the use of police cells to accommodate inmates. The warning comes as latest figures show that all available “surge beds” at the City Watch House (38) and Holden Hill police station (17) had been used every night this month to house inmates. In a letter to Corrections chief David Brown, Police Commissioner Gary Burns warns of the “intangible costs” of keeping criminals in cells at police stations related to “public safety, service delivery and operational safety”. The Government has blamed the rapidly increasing number of sentenced and remand prisoners for the need to regularly house inmates in “surge” beds in police cells. Read More. |
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