The New Clarence Correctional Center Near Grafton on the New South Wales North Coast Will be Australia's Largest Private Prison Housing up to 1,700 Inmates - Detractors say "there is not the same degree of examination of the activities inside a private jail as there is with a public jail!"

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The New Clarence Correctional Center Near Grafton on the New South Wales North Coast Will be Australia's Largest Private Prison Housing up to 1,700 Inmates - Detractors say "there is not the same degree of examination of the activities inside a private jail as there is with a public jail!" (www.abc.net.au)

The old Grafton Jail was for many years considered Australia's toughest prison known for the "Reception Biff," which meant the screws beat the living sh*t out of new arrivals as soon as they got there, it is said to have "mellowed" in its final yrs whence [HM Prison Goulburn](https://i.postimg.cc/QtF0z9dg/Goulburn-Gaol.png) took up the slack. [Link](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5328041/Inside-Australias-dangerous-prison-yard.html).

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The facility was built at a cost of about $700 million, and will be operated under a public-private partnership involving the State Government and a consortium compromising John Laing, John Holland and Serco.

So the US style prison industrial complex, run as a for-profit business has finally hit Australia.

The lucky country they say. Bring back old Goulburn gaol.

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