Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

Chapter 20
PRISON TRANSPARENCY
People not directly involved in penal matters often find the prospect of
serving time a horrendous mental leap, one of terror. After all, did not the
Germans maximise such evil with their concentration camps, nay, with their
death camps? Was it not a mere matter of detaining people and
establishing detention centres for those who opposed the Hitler
dictatorship, which was designed and premised on conquering the world
and killing all Jews of the world?
Such nonsense has been spewing forth since World War One propaganda
against Germans. It has effectively undermined penal systems within ‘free and
democratic western countries’. In 1999 when foreign prisoners verbally
abused German prison officers at Mannheim by calling them ‘Nazis’ and
‘racists’ I intervened a couple of times to tell the prisoners about the
Holocaust, and how it contextualises these words as pure hatred of Germans.
Media reports about Cadell and other prisons indicate how common
problems have become. Hence my call to legalise drugs!
Prison training centre addresses staffing woes
Friday July 16, 2004 1:34 p.m. AEST
The South Australian Correctional Services Department says it will not
involuntarily relocate staff from the Cadell Training Centre, in the state's south,
as a means of addressing the facility's management and staffing problems.
A review commissioned by department chief executive Peter Severin found a
rift between two groups of staff was affecting the centre's operations and
morale.
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