Nearly 40 per cent of Victoria’s prisoner population is housed in three privately managed prisons – Port Philip Prison, Ravenhall Correctional Centre and Fulham Correctional Centre. As a consequence, Victoria has the largest proportion of privately managed prisoners in Australia, while Australia has the largest proportion in the world.
It’s absolutely central to why, right across the country, we’re doubling down on carceral approaches that we know increase offending rather than reducing it. There’s vested interests keen to ensure that.
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