The Corrections Minister has revealed Serco has been fined $300,000 in the last year for breaching its contract with the Government. Sam Lotu-Iiga met the prison company's bosses today and put them on notice after video footage of inmates fighting, smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol, and reports of other assaults at Mt Eden remand prison.
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