DARWIN — On October 27, around 40 inmates in the Berrimah prison staged a sit-in protest to demand improved conditions. The demands of the prisoners included provision of a second telephone (there is currently only one phone for 120 people in M block), the fortnightly changing of mattress covers and free shaving equipment.
The three prisoners alleged by prison guards to have organised the sit-in where later removed by guards from the block. "We decided to remove them and place them in a more secure block, which we did", acting prison superintendent Phil Brown told the ABC.
Kathy Newnam
From Green Left Weekly, November 9, 2005.
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