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Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor in Law and Criminal Justice, Adelaide University

The effectiveness of private prisons is debatable – why does Australia have so many?

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This month, the South Australian government extended a contract with a private firm to manage a men’s prison in Adelaide for another five years, despite a damning report about its operations.

The report from the McKell Institute – a non-profit, progressive Australian public policy think tank – concluded the private operation of the Adelaide Remand Centre had been a failure.

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