WA prisoners mine new skills
Minimum security prisoners around WA can gain mining and civil construction skills through a collaboration between Aboriginal contractor Carey Mining, the WA Justice Department and traditional landowners. Twelve Aboriginal prisoners have graduated from the Carey Bindjareb training program run by the state department at Serpentine-based facility, Karnet Prison Farm, and are on track for potential employment. WA Corrective Services, Mines and Petroleum and Energy Minister Rob Johnston says the project provides meaningful industry-led training for Aboriginal men with direct links to employment when they get out of prison. “It’s a great result to have nearly two-thirds of graduates in the community gainfully employed in the mining and civil industries, and that most of the remainder are actively seeking work” he…