OFF THE WIRE
BIKIES threatened with pink jumpsuits and 23-hour-a-day lockdowns are
escaping the harsh conditions by simply resigning from their clubs while
in jail.
The Department of Justice has confirmed that the bikies
are being returned to general population, which includes more
recreational time, once they tell prison authorities they have turned
their back on their clubs.
It said the number of bikies at
Woodford Correctional Centre’s restricted management unit were
“fluctuating’’ because hardened bikies were turning their backs on their
clubs. It is not clear what bikies must do to prove they have
relinquished their colours.
In a statement to The Courier-Mail, a
Justice Department spokesman said: “As planned, prisoners who are
participants in a criminal organisation will continue to be incarcerated
there. The numbers of incarcerated prisoners will fluctuate over time.
“As prisoners cut their ties to criminal organisations they will be moved back into the general prison population.”
A
spokesman for Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said it had always been
the case that gang members who resigned from their criminal
organisations and proved they had walked away from that life would be
allowed to move on.
“The authorities will, of course, keep an eye
on the ones who have resigned and, if it turns out they were lying,
they’ll go back in,” he said.
“The gangs now realise we mean business and they’ve made the right choice to give up that life and try to be rehabilitated.”
The
State Government moved to have the bikies separated in jail because of
their propensity to recruit members and continue their illicit
transactions while behind bars.
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