Queensland to end private jails experiment after scathing report | Australia news | The Guardian

Queensland prisons

It’s just step 1. Will rehabilitation or Punishment be the priority? Will economic concerns and costs determine the the means making goals secondary. ?( ODT)

Queensland will end its experiment with privately run jails after a scathing report found it was hard to know what was really going on inside them.

The government will retake control of the state’s two privately run prisons, costing taxpayers an extra $111m over four years.

via Queensland to end private jails experiment after scathing report | Australia news | The Guardian