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June 26th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith says the state’s new corrective services commissioner Peter Severin is an ideas man who will aim to drive down reoffending rates.
Mr Severin, a German-born veteran of South Australian and Queensland prisons, replaces Ron Woodham who is retiring after a decade running NSW jails.
While Mr Smith praised Mr Woodham’s 43-year career in NSW Corrective Services, he said Mr Severin had achieved the nation’s lowest reoffending rate for four years running during his tenure as chief executive of the South Australian Department for Correctional Services.
In South Australia, 30 per cent of ex-prisoners committed crimes within two years of being released, which compared “sadly” to 43 per cent in NSW, the attorney-general said.
“I’m hoping that under his leadership, we’ll be able to drive down the reoffending rate, which is one of the matters that’s important so far as I’m concerned in running the corrective services portfolio,” Mr Smith told reporters on Tuesday.
“He has ideas. I’ve met him. I’ve been very impressed with him, as was the selection committee.
“He was the outstanding candidate.”
During his nine years heading South Australia’s prison system, Mr Severin has championed case-managed rehabilitation programs for prisoners and drug offenders.
He served earlier as the deputy director-general of Queensland Corrective Services.
While the state government is yet to respond officially to the Law Reform Commission’s recommendation earlier this month to overhaul bail laws, including introducing a presumption of bail for all but the most violent offences, Mr Smith indicated he agreed with their broad position.
“People who aren’t a risk to our community shouldn’t be refused bail unless they’ve done previous things or they’re threatening things,” he said.
Mr Woodham, who continues in his role for several months until Mr Severin finishes in South Australia, called to congratulate his successor on his five-year appointment, which had input from Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione.
“I congratulate Peter Severin on his appointment as the new Corrective Services Commissioner of NSW,” he said in a statement to AAP.
“I will be conducting a formal handover when he commences duty and I will assist him wherever possible.”
Shadow attorney-general Paul Lynch welcomed the appointment of Mr Severin but questioned how he would reduce the reoffending rate.
“While I welcome the appointment of the new commissioner, I struggle to see how his department will be able to reduce reoffending given that Attorney-General Greg Smith has failed to deliver on his promised $20 million boost to education services for prisoners,” he said in a statement.
Premier Barry O’Farrell said Mr Severin would have a big task taking over from Mr Woodham.
“Ron Woodham has done a fantastic job, and I was keen, as were others, to ensure that whoever had to try and fill his shoes, which is going to be a mammoth job, has the sort of hands-on experience necessary,” he told Macquarie Radio.
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