Issue No 31 | 17 September 1999 | |
NewsPrisons Reject Free Computers
NSW prison authorities have directed jails to return free computers that had been donated for the use of prisoners by corporate and community groups.
Commissioner of Corrective Services Leo Keliher ordered this week ordered ten computers, provided through the Prisoner Computer Project to be returned to Justice Action, the organisation that had raised the money to purchase them. But Justice Action's Brett Collins says he's refused to receive them, leaving the valuable assets in limbo. The Prisoner Computer Project was established to allow inmates to study in prison and prepare their defences when on remand. Under the scheme two computers had been delivered to the maximum security section of Long Bay, four to the Mullawa Women's Maximum Security section and four more to a minimum security section of Long Bay. Collins says the decision is out of step with notions of rehabilitation. And he says it will prevent accused people being held on remand who can't afford legal representation from preparing their own cases.
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Interview: Sadly Vindicated Labor�s foreign affairs spokesman Laurie Brereton has spent the past year warning that East Timor would explode without a UN peacekeeping force. Now he�s had to watch his predictions come true. International: In the Bunker One of the last reporters to leave East Timor, Workers Online's HT Lee remembers the week that Dili burned. Republic: Tarred With the Same Brush Neville Wran asks why it is that the most fervant monarchists are also the most eager union-bashers. Unions: Hard Labour Prisoner educators argue more attention needs to be given to rehabilitation through teaching, but they�re facing an uphill battle to convince authorities. History: Labour and Community A history conference in Wollongong next month will look at the changing role for labour into the next century. Review: Bobbin' Up - 40 Years On Forty years after its first publicaton and several European translations Bobbin Up, a classic of industrial fiction, is coming home. Satire: East Timor Poll Triumph: Support for Jakarta Up 21 Per Cent The Indonesian Government has declared that it is pleased with the result of the independence referendum in which 21% of East Timorese voted in support of maintaining links with Indonesia.
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