Officials in trouble after strippers entertain prisoners
'I want to give assurance that‚ based on our briefing and our visit to the place where this happened‚ is that there is no taxpayer money involved in this entertainment’
26 June 2017 - 14:23
Managers and lower ranking officials are amongst 13 people facing possible suspension as the Correctional Services department was on Monday left red-faced by images that surfaced on social media showing scantily clad women in lingerie entertaining prisoners. "The intention was never to have strippers in the facility‚" Acting National Correctional Services Commissioner James Smalberger told a news briefing.
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