The Big Pictures: privatisation & prisons: Business Behind Bars

Business Behind Bars - Thursday 25 March Mechanics Institute

The Evatt Foundation's Big Pictures aims to bring films to notice that raise public policy issues worthy of discussion and debate. For those who wish to participate, after a short intermission, the films will be followed by a panel discussion.

We are pleased to announce the screening of

Business Behind Bars

This film is about one of the most powerful and recession-proof industries today. As overcrowding intensifies in Australian prisons, governments are turning to the private sector to manage and own correctional facilities. This film takes an inside look at the private prison entrepreneurs who are paving a new future in the Australian correctional system and for the prisoners in their care. This documentary seeks to understand the different perspectives and approaches in providing the most effective correctional system in Australia and the United States. Business Behind Bars is directed by Catherine Scott and produced by Pat Fiske for Paradigm Pictures.

"The private prison industry is based on prisoners, it's continued and growing profits is based on prison growth. In order to do this, we need sufficient enough raw material. What's frightening in this case, the raw material is people."
- Steven Donziger, editor The Real War on Crime (HarperPerennial).

Discussion Panel

The discussion will be led by Professor David Brown. David teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Justice and Crime Prevention courses at the University of NSW in Sydney, where he has been since 1974. He is a co-author of the major and innovative Criminal Laws (1990), (1996), (2001), and (2006) which has become the leading student teaching text in criminal law in universities in NSW and the ACT. He is very widely published across the broad areas of criminal law, criminal justice, criminology and penology, both in Australia and internationally. He has co-authored or co-edited 10 books; published 26 chapters in books, and over 100 articles in journals and in conference proceedings published; given 100 conference papers and public addresses all over the world; and is a regular media commentator on criminal justice issues. His co-authored book with Russell Hogg, Rethinking Law and Order (1998) was launched by Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court.

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