00:00Private prison officers will now work round-the-clock in the Northern Territory's courts, hospitals
00:07and police watch houses, according to internal communications from the Corrections Department.
00:12The memo says Corrections Commissioner Matthew Varley this week signed a second work order
00:17with private security firm G4S after first contracting the firm in March to ferry prisoners
00:24between Darwin prisons and Darwin's courts.
00:27The U.S. firm will now supervise prisoners in hospital and in police watch houses, which
00:32have for months been used as makeshift prison cells, as the NT prison system struggles to
00:37cope with record incarceration rates.
00:40The expanded duties for G4S officers was first flagged by the Corrections Minister Gerard
00:45Mailey in June, whose department says will free up prison officers inside the Northern
00:51Territory's prisons to focus on their critical duties.
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01:12wild of the American civil rights claim.
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