Parklea prison is becoming Australia's most notorious jail скачать в хорошем качестве

Parklea prison is becoming Australia's most notorious jail

Parklea prison in Sydney's north-western suburbs is fast becoming Australia's most notorious jail after a spate of violent and bizarre incidents involving inmates and officers.In one week alone a female officer was allegedly caught smuggling tobacco behind bars, an inmate was stabbed, and another was caught with smuggled illustrations of a building being constructed on the site.It has even been reported a sack of wooden toys destined for a children's charity went missing from a staff area last Wednesday.This year there have been stabbings, assaults and drug seizures - even news that a set of keys had been taken by a prisoner as he was being released.Most infamously of all, a video emerged of a prisoner brandishing makeshift blades and what is believed to have been the drug ice, while making claims officers were responsible for bringing drugs inside.Parklea Correctional Centre, a privately-run maximum security prison, has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons since the start of the year.It is even the subject of a New South Wales Police Strike Force.The Corrective Services Investigation Unit established Strike Force Iraga to identify potentially corrupt behaviour of employees at Parklea.In January it was reported an inmate had stolen a set of keys as he was being released from the facility, leading to locks having to be changed.The inmate was alleged to have taken the keys from a staff area while being processed for release on December 22 last year.A Corrective Services spokeswoman said then the department and operator GEO Group Australia were 'investigating security measures including key control and management processes within the centre'.'None of the keys provide access to the prison or to inmate areas inside such as cells or yards,' the spokeswoman said.But a number of affected locks elsewhere in the centre did have to be replaced or secured with padlocks.On February 21 police were called to Parklea after a 27-year-old inmate was stabbed in the neck while in a common area of the prison.In May, prison officers intercepted contraband which outsiders had tried to smuggle into the facility.Four mobile phones stuffed inside a one litre carton of milk, tobacco, white powder and flick knives were among the items seized in the area between the centre's perimeter fence and the prison walls.Problems within Parklea became national news in July when Daily Mail Australia revealed a video of inmate Carl Walton filming himself brandishing weapons and drugs inside his prison cell.In the video, recorded in August last year, Walton claimed he was filming himself on a mobile phone given to him by a prison officer.'Recording inside of Parklea Correctional Centre,' he said.'On a day-to-day basis this place is a dead set joke.'Right now I'm in my cell, I've got a mobile phone.Why have I got a mobile phone? It's because screws are bringing mobile phones into the jail.' He continued: 'Why am I carrying around a knife? Why does that need to be in my hand at