INDEPENDENT EXPERT TO LEAD SECURITY REVIEW
Source: Queensland. Minister for Police, Corrective Services and Emergency Services. Media Release
"An independent external expert will be engaged to lead a security review team on a state-wide audit of correctional centres, Corrective Services Minister Neil Roberts announced. Mr Roberts said the formation of the team followed a recommendation of the Chief Inspector of Prisons in his interim report into the disappearance and subsequent recovery of a gun at Lotus Glen Correctional Centre in Far North Queensland. “Work was underway on forming this review team when a cell key was located in a residential section of Maryborough Correctional Centre at 10am today during a routine security sweep,” Mr Roberts said. Despite security at MCC not being compromised, this incident is totally unacceptable and is the second major security breach at one of our correctional centres in recent months."