Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Is the highest security unit of all South Australian prisons. It
accommodates special needs prisoners and high security protectees.
Prisoners who are in need of high supervision are also held in this unit.
Occasionally prisoners from other prisons who are in need of this
special accommodation are transferred to G-Division. Some of its cells
are constructed to permit continuous observation of prisoners at risk.
http://www.corrections.sa.gov.au/prisons/photos/photo5.htm
Indeed, my special needs were well attended to; how fortunate I am in
understanding the logic behind this kind of treatment: character-building, a
concept that today is considered to be a cruel form of a pedagogical ideal.
Even army training instructors worry how many recruits burst into tears as
harsh words are hurled at them during basic training – that’s how delicate
and hypersensitive many individuals have become.
We drive just a few hundred metres to E Division, Yatala Labour Prison’s
Induction Section –a bit late for my induction, surely?
Let me make a general comment about G Division personnel. The men
who staff this section have a difficult task in trying to tame those prisoners
who still think their enemy is the prison system, when in fact the enemy is
the person who sends them to prison – the judges themselves. Judges would
protest and claim they are merely interpreting the parliament’s laws while
the government implement the outcome. Such a view fails to accord
personal responsibility to those who make decisions. But we are advised
that our elected members can be voted out of office – implying that until
the next election grin and bear the injustices.
Was it not the essence of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, the World
War Two military tribunals, that merely following orders was not a
defence? I wished to make a similar comment in court to the three judges
when Spender denied me to address the court. Are the absurd Branson
2002 court orders to be followed blindly?
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