No New Women's Prison Campaign Update The Vigil held outside the site of the new women's prison at Sth Windsor was most successful with some excellent media coverage (radio & especially Saturday's SMH 1.12.01).
At almost the same time, the final report of the Select committee into the Increase in Prisoner Population was tabled. We are very pleased with the report and its recommendations as they reflect strongly the need to stop using prison for non-violent, relatively less serious offenders and to divert more remandees from prison. We urge everyone to look up the report on the web: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/Committee.nsf/Inquiries?Open or if you are unable to do that to request a copy from the Committee on 92303544 We urge each of you to write to the Premier, The Attorney General and the Minister for Corrective Services (addresses / emails follow) calling upon the government to implement the recommendations of the interim report (on women) and the final report. The Premier The Hon. Bob Carr MLA [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Hon Bob Debus MLA Attorney General [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Hon Richard Amery Minister for Corrective Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] or send letters to the above members at Parliament House Macquarie St Sydney' NSW 2000 -- Eileen Baldry PhD Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work, UNSW Ph: 61 2 9385 1878 Fax: 61 2 9662 8991 UNSW CRICOS provider code number 00098G -- -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archived at http://www.cat.org.au/lists/leftlink/ Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
