International Exhibition Tammi Levine, Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre
Beijing Municipal Administration visitors (L-R): He Yujin, Area Manager Alan Spiers, Wei Shuliang, General Manager Greg Howden, Liu Yong, Area Manager Nick Bradshaw, Xu Yuehe.
isitors from the Chinese and Japanese penal systems recently visited the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre in Queensland and were impressed with the way the GEO systems were working in Australia. The representatives were from the Prison Administrative Bureau of Beijing and the Japanese Ministry of Justice.
V Wei Shuliang, Director General Beijing Municipal Administration of Prisons, presenting gifts to General Manager Greg Howden
The four representatives in the Beijing group included the director general, Beijing Municipal Administration of Prisons, who is responsible for the majority of prisons throughout China and the country’s 1.5 million prisoners.
Japanese Ministry of Justice visitors (L-R): General Manager Greg Howden, Hiroshi Yamaura, Kenichi Wantanabe.
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The two visitors from the Japanese Ministry of Justice,
which controls more than 70 prisons and detention centres, were senior technical officials from the Facilities Division. Above all, these visitors were impressed with the structure of the prison buildings as well as the daily routine of the prisoners. At the conclusion of the visit by the Chinese delegation, Phoenix Fu, the official translator said, “The delegates were really impressed by the good facility and solid infrastructure of the centre as well as the environment. So clean and fresh with plants and animals. Also they were moved by the kind attitude of officers to prisoners. When we visited one of the cells, the officer asked the prisoner “Is it okay to have a look of your room? That showed the respect of everyone in the prison.”
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