Question Without Notice No. 592 asked in the Legislative Council on 15 August 2018 by Hon Jim Chown
Parliament: 40 Session: 1
GREENOUGH REGIONAL PRISON — CRITICAL INCIDENT
592. Hon JIM CHOWN to the minister representing the Minister for Corrective Services:
I ask the minister responsible for corrective services and who presided over the largest prison break at Greenough Regional Prison in recent history the following.
(1) How many prison officers were employed at Greenough Regional Prison on 24 July 2017?
(2) How many prison officers were employed at Greenough Regional Prison on 24 July 2018?
(3) How many prisoners were incarcerated on 24 July 2017?
(4) How many prisoners were incarcerated on 24 July 2018?
(5) What will be the cost of rectifying the infrastructure damage from the riot that took place at Greenough Regional Prison on 24 July 2018?
(6) What is the time frame to have the prison back to being fully functional?
(7) What steps has the minister taken to ensure that public safety will be upheld and there will not be a repeat of prisoner escapes in the state prisons and correctional establishments?
Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:
I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question.
Unfortunately, it is not answerable in the given time frame and I ask the member to place the question on notice. Having looked at it, there are some elements of it that I should be able to give the member, so I will chase it up for tomorrow and give the member the answers to the questions we can get a quick answer on. He might have to put the rest on notice.