South Australia's corrections department says it's confident the state's prisons will be managed effectively as union member corrections officers continue their industrial strike action. And compliance officers who monitor about 15-hundred people on home detention have now also walked off the job with the department assuring the public it has experience operating under emergency conditions.
00:00Standing firm as union members vote to continue striking indefinitely until staff receive a 20% pay rise over 18 months.
00:11So I just found out a couple of minutes ago, the home detention staff are out.
00:19The Public Service Association says 16 officers who monitor the ankle bracelets of one and a half thousand people on home detention also voted to strike.
00:29And there is nobody monitoring home detention in South Australia.
00:35I've been reassured by the Chief Executive of Correctional Services that they have staff to maintain security over those detainees.
00:44The Corrections Department didn't respond to questions from the ABC about how the 16 positions would be filled.
00:50But in a statement it said its ankle monitoring services remain operational and all response protocols were unchanged and in force.
00:58The Government continues to rule out the requested pay increase, offering between a 10.5 to 12.5% yearly increase instead.
01:07I'd say to the PSA, we've offered considerable pay increases, considerable pay increases.
01:15And what they risk doing now is losing public support.
01:19Prisoners have been in lockdown since Monday morning when the strike began.
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