Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:13 pm
Maybe they can relocate Glenelg residents to this facility.
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I actually think that it is probabaly me. My 2006 UBD is in the car, and it's cold outside so I used my heritage listed 1987 UBD. Maybe the street has changed names since 1987.AtD wrote:According to my UBD there is no Reid Ave in Ashford, but it's probably just me.
YATALA TO GO FOR NEW HOMES
EXCLUSIVE: GREG KELTON, STATE POLITICAL REPORTER
September 21, 2006 12:15am
Article from: The Advertiser
YATALA Prison, Northfield Women's Prison and the Magill Youth Detention Centre will be closed within five years and the land sold off for housing in a $500 million program to build four prison facilities in the state.
Three new jails - one for males and one for females and a pre-release centre - will be built at Mobilong, on the outskirts of Murray Bridge.
A new youth detention centre also will be constructed at Cavan in Adelaide's northern suburbs.
The land on which the current jails are located - prime real estate at Northfield and Magill - will be opened for housing.
Thousands of construction jobs are predicted. Murray Bridge will benefit with up to several hundred permanent jobs created.
The planned correctional services program, costing $517 million, will be part of a major capital works and infrastructure program to be unveiled today by Treasurer Kevin Foley in his fifth State Budget.
Mr Foley said all the facilities would be built in the next five years as public private partnerships. "The Government has decided to embark on a major reform of the prison system," he said.
The new 760-bed male prison will replace the current men's prison at Mobilong at a cost of $315 million.
It will be twice the size of Yatala, which is overcrowded with about 500 prisoners in a jail originally designed to hold only 341.
Yatala cannot be closed until the new men's prison is completed at Mobilong.
Near to Mobilong, the Government will build a new women's prison of 150 beds to replace the outdated women's prison at Northfield which has been condemned by inmates, visitors and even Parole Board chairwoman Frances Nelson, QC, as being of "third world standard".
Mr Foley said the women's prison would cost $96 million and would have 58 extra beds over the current capacity at Northfield.
Mr Foley said the men's and women's jail at Mobilong would have "appropriate separation".
He said the new pre-release centre, currently operating out of Yatala, would be built at Cavan at a cost of $27 million with an 80-bed capacity. The Magill Youth Detention Centre would also close and a new juvenile facility costing $79 million would be built at Cavan near an existing youth detention centre.
Part of the construction contract will include the provision of bus services for prisoners appearing in court and relatives wishing to visit the prisons.
Premier Mike Rann said the Government had considered putting the youth centre at Mobilong but had deliberately made a decision to "separate the youth prison at Cavan from the older jail population at Mobilong". "We didn't want to establish a university for budding criminals," he said.
He said some buildings at Yatala would have to be retained for heritage purposes but large tracts of land would be freed up for investors and the community.
Mr Rann said it would mean an end to these "appalling facilities" being parked in the middle of our suburbs. "We want to move our prison system out of the 19th Century to the 21st Century," he said.
"The Government moved to toughen penalties and crack down on crime in our first term in office," he said. "Now we are investing in extra prosecutors and in our prisons as well.
"People have been criticising us for not spending enough on infrastructure. This will be a huge boost to our construction industry."
The Public Service Association has repeatedly warned of looming problems in the prison system if outdated facilities at Yatala and the women's prison are not replaced. PSA general secretary Jan McMahon said yesterday if there was no provision in the Budget for new correctional facilities, the situation in the state's prison system would become critical.
"You can't have an extra 400 police being put on the beat without extra staff within the justice system," she said.
"It will just lead to overcrowding in the prisons and unless there are some long-term plans, the situation will get out of hand."
Opposition corrections spokeswoman Michelle Lensink said there had been more than two years of promises of major restructuring of the state's prison system.
"Still the community has yet to see any confirmation of capital works projects except for the completion of Mobilong," Ms Lensink said.
"Continued neglect of our prisons places prisoners at risk and increases the likelihood of re-offending.
"It also compromises the safety of corrections employees as highlighted last month with the discovery of make-shift weapons at Yatala."
Well said. Moving the prisons was inevitable, it was only a matter of funding for the replacements.AtD wrote:There's practically houses on the prison walls now anyway.
I read a article in the tiser a couple of months ago and it said that guy who raped and murderd that ch9 newsreaders 15year old son can see children playing in their backyards from his cell. - scary stuffThere's practically houses on the prison walls now anyway.
I hear the Farmers Federation this morning complaining that there's not enough of the budget's money going to rural areas. Murray Bridge is a rural area. It's not as if prisoners are escaping from jail all the time. It's not as if the jails are going to be in the centre of town - they'll be out at Mobilong, several km away. The amount of work created, with it's flow-ons, will bring people and more infrastructure to the city. I see it as a positive thing for Murray Bridge.crawf wrote:Murray Bridge residents might not like this outcome.