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Privatisation and public policy : a correctional case study

Hotel Sofitel, Melbourne
16 June 1997 - 17 June 1997

Introduction

With increases in prison populations expected, moves to improve effectiveness and efficiency through greater involvement of the private sector in corrective services need to be explored in detail. These conference proceedings discuss the public policy implications of the move towards the privatisation of corrective services, and examine the issues surrounding appropriate service provision in a privatised system.

Conference papers

• Corrections in the year 2000? 
  Dr Leo Keliher, Commissioner, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales

The public policy implications of privatisation

• The public policy implications of privatisation (Presentation not available)
  Professoressor Mark Considine, University of Melbourne, Victoria; and Deakin Human Services Australia
• Private prison companies : their perspective
  Stephen Twinn, Director of Operations and Business Development, Group 4 Correction Services, Victoria
• Private prison companies: a CCA perspective
  Anne Dutney, General Manager, Operations Corrections Corporation of Australia
• Private prison companies : their perspective
  Bill Curnow, National Manager Infrastructure, Research and Development, THEISS Contractors

Contracting out community corrections : the judicial perspective

• Contracting out community corrections: the judicial perspective
  Justice Frank Vincent, Supreme Court of Victoria

Victorian case study

• Policy overview and framework for prison privatisation in Victoria
  Tim Daly, Deputy Secretary (Justice Operations), Office of the Secretary, Department of Justice, Victoria
• Development processes and contractual structure
  Tony Wilson, Project Director, New Prisons Project, Department of Justice, Victoria
• Correctional standards and monitoring service delivery
  John van Groningen, Commissioner, Office of the Correctional Services Commissioner, Department of Justice, Victoria

Purchase and provider : the Queensland experience

• Purchaser and provider : the Queensland experience
  Stan Macionis, Corrections Corporation Commission, Queensland

Opportunities and hazards : the impact of privatisation upon prisoners' policy and administration

• Opportunities and hazards : the impact of privatisation upon prisons' policy and administration (Presentation not available)
  Professoressor Richard Harding, Director, Crime Research Centre, University of Western Australia

Models for contracting out community corrections

• Models for contracting out community corrections
  Grant Johnson, Director, Community Correctional Services, CORE - the Public Correctional Enterprise, Victoria
• Models for contracting out community corrections
  Brenda Smith, Assistant Commissioner Probation and Parole, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales
• Models for contracting out community corrections
  Angela Musmeci, Regional Manager Operations and Support, Community Corrections, Queensland

Access and accountability issues

• Accountability issues associated with the development of privately managed corrective services
  Denbigh Richards, Deputy Secretary, Corrective Services Tasmania
• Access issues
  Stephen Twinn, Director of Operations and Business Development, Group 4 Correction Services, Victoria

Education : provision of education and training in a multiprovider system

• Private provision in a multi-purpose public provider
  Bernard Meatheringham, Department for Correctional Services South Australia
• Provision of education and training in a multiprovider system
  Ken Penaluma, Department of Corrections, Victoria; and Ron Wilson, Associate Director, Kangan Institute of TAFE, Victoria

Health and special services

• Models for managing health services in a multiprovider system
  Michael Burt, Department of Human Services, Victoria
• Managing health care in a multi-provider environment - prisoner & offender health care services - P&OHCS
  Michael Boswell, General Manager, Business Services, Department for Correctional Services, South Australia
• The delivery of specialist services : a Western Australian case study (Presentation not available)
  Guy Hall, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia

Issues for Aboriginal prisoners

• Issues for Aboriginal prisoners
  Alf Bamblett, Aboriginal Community Services Association, Victoria
• Issues for Aboriginal prisoners
  Trevor Christian, General Manager, Sydney Regional Aboriginal Corporation, New South Wales

Prison industries : delivering prison industries in a multiprovider system

• Delivering correctional industries in a multi provider system
  Helen Kay, Adult Education and Vocational Training Institute, Department of Corrective Services, New South Wales
• Delivering prison industries in a multiprovider system
  Garry Wert, CORE - The Public Corrections Enterprise, Victoria