The inside story on crime within prison
- Written by Catharine Phillips, Acting Superintendent, Karnet Prison Farm, Edith Cowan University
I’ve spent many years working within the prison system, in minimum and maximum security facilities, with adults and juveniles, men and women. I often hear people say that people who commit crimes, particularly serious crimes, should be imprisoned so they can no longer hurt people.
What the public often doesn’t realise is that...