Posts Tagged ‘Serco’

Corrections Minister impressed by prison programme

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Programmes such as allowing inmates to spend the day with their children have impressed Corrections Minister Anne Tolley. Mrs Tolley visited the Serco-managed Doncaster Prison in England last week. Serco will manage nearly a quarter of New Zealand’s prison population by 2015 when it takes over a new 960-bed facility in Wiri. It began a six-year Read more

Private Providers Cut Prison Chaplaincy Services

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

Inmates at Auckland’s Mt Eden prison have had church services and one-on-one meetings with men of the cloth slashed since the jail was taken over by private firm Serco five months ago. Serco admitted the prison had been using a temporary prison chaplaincy team since four permanent padres left in October after failing to agree Read more