{"id":6841,"date":"2015-07-23T08:57:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=6841"},"modified":"2015-07-23T08:57:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T19:57:13","slug":"sercos-private-prisons-are-a-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=6841","title":{"rendered":"Serco&#8217;s private prisons are a failure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-77\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/avatr.gif\" alt=\"avatr\" width=\"70\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fightclub.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6844\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fightclub.jpg\" alt=\"Fightclub\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fightclub.jpg 610w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fightclub-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fightclub-123x70.jpg 123w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Fightclub-570x320.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some parts of society you just can&#8217;t \u00a0privatise Schools, Prisons and State housing. Serco is a defence and aerospace contractors based in the UK. Serco\u00a0operates public and private transport and traffic control, aviation, military weapons, detention centres, prisons and schools.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 government\u00a0tried outsourcing prisoner transport to Chubb another UK company and \u00a017-year-old Liam Ashley was killed while in the back on a Chubb prison van . Chubb lost their government contract to transport prisoners.<\/p>\n<p>Private prisons\u00a0run by corporations\u00a0serve a dual purpose to make maximum profit for shareholders\u00a0and to meet key performance indicators for the correction&#8217;s department. Too meet these objectives and protect inmates is a fine line.<\/p>\n<p>Reports that Prison guards have little resources too search cells for contraband with some inmates\u00a0concealing\u00a0weapons like Shanks. These failures make prisons a deadly prospect for new inmates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shanks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6885\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shanks.jpg\" alt=\"shanks\" width=\"490\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shanks.jpg 490w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shanks-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/shanks-220x173.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The minister of social development Anne Tolley has proposed outsourcing <a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=6075\">Social welfare to Serco<\/a>. A bloodcurdling\u00a0prospect considering Serco prisons are conducting\u00a0fight clubs and reports that \u00a0prisoner Nick Evans was thrown off a balcony.<\/p>\n<p>The National governments policy of &#8220;being hard on crime&#8221; and \u00a0Neo-liberal approach of outsourcing State services\u00a0like Prisons puts peoples lives in danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mana News editor Joe Trinder Some parts of society you just can&#8217;t \u00a0privatise Schools, Prisons and State housing. Serco is a defence and aerospace contractors based in the UK. Serco\u00a0operates public and private transport and traffic control, aviation, military weapons, detention centres, prisons and schools. In 2007 government\u00a0tried outsourcing prisoner transport to Chubb another UK [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6841"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6890,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6841\/revisions\/6890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}