NSW: No plans to sell off other prisons: Rees

AAP General News (Australia)
02-04-2009
NSW: No plans to sell off other prisons: Rees

SYDNEY, Feb 4 AAP - Premier Nathan Rees says he has no current plans to sell off more
than two NSW prisons amid union fears the entire sector maybe privatised.

More than 100 prison officers walked off the job at Sydney's Long Bay Jail on Wednesday
calling for an end to plans to privatise NSW prisons.

The NSW government has announced plans to sell off Sydney's Parklea and the Hunter's
Cessnock prisons, but the NSW Public Service Association says the privatisation would
not stop there.

Mr Rees on Thursday said there were no plans "at this …