Private prison operator Serco relieved of control at Mt Eden prison

Private prison operator Serco relieved of control at Mt Eden prison
By Pattrick Smellie July 24 (BusinessDesk) - Multi-national private prison operator Serco has been forced to hand back control of Auckland's Mt Eden remand prison to the Department of Corrections, which has used a 'step-in' clause in its contract with Serco following a string of increasingly serious allegations about contraband, prisoner injuries and a death. Corrections Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga and Corrections Department chief executive Ray Smith hosted a hastily arranged press conference at Parliament this afternoon to announce the decisi...