Arbeit macht frei: - Fredrick Töben

I sat with Jim and the others at the table while awaiting the call to Property.
When it comes I bid my mates of 3 months farewell and look for Grant of
Maintenance who is with the other maintenance officers in their Dormitory
office complex. I thank them all for having been … Been what? What is the
term I am looking for? Yes, for having been ‘excellent professional prison
officers’.
On a daily basis I saw them interact with the prisoners and marvelled at
their sometime patient ways of handling situations. This is the tone
emanating directly from Shaun Edward’s office, the man who has been
serving this establishment for more than 30 years. His somewhat fatherly
approach to his duty accentuates what I feel about the inmates generally –
lost boys who were never properly cared for at home or at school and who
then became fodder for any predatory impulse of which we have so many
within our society who all too readily hawk their values as loudly and
enticingly as possible to the vulnerable, to those floundering – without a
mentor – in that huge sea of life’s stark realities.
On 29 January 2007 this professionalism was publicly recognised. And
rightly so because what I witnessed at Cadell during the 11 weeks I spent
there leads me to the same conclusion. A 3-month period is long enough to
evaluate the atmosphere of a place, a community’s ambience.
Awards for Correctional Services’ finest
South Australian Correctional Services staff have been recognised for
their outstanding professionalism and conduct at an official awards
ceremony today at Adelaide Town Hall.
Correctional Services Minister, Carmel Zollo, who presented the 2nd
Department for Correctional Services Awards, says each of the
individual and team award recipients play an important role either
directly or indirectly in creating a safer community in which we can all
live.
Grant Cameron
Grant has an outstanding commitment and dedication to his work and
to the prisoners for whom he has been responsible. Whether in his role
as a Building Services Officer at Cadell Training Centre or interested
and supportive Coach in sport, Grant has made and taken the time to
teach, guide, coach and train prisoners in trade skill acquisition and nonjudgemental
team work.
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