AUSRALIA - Bikies threatened with pink jumpsuits and 23-hour-a-day lockdowns are resigning from clubs

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BIKIES threatened with pink jumpsuits and 23-hour-a-day lockdowns are escaping the harsh conditions by simply resigning from their clubs while in jail.

The Department of Justice has confirmed that the bikies are being returned to general population, which includes more recreational time, once they tell prison authorities they have turned their back on their clubs.

It said the number of bikies at Woodford Correctional Centre’s restricted management unit were “fluctuating’’ because hardened bikies were turning their backs on their clubs. It is not clear what bikies must do to prove they have relinquished their colours.

In a statement to The Courier-Mail, a Justice Department spokesman said: “As planned, prisoners who are participants in a criminal organisation will continue to be incarcerated there. The numbers of incarcerated prisoners will fluctuate over time.

“As prisoners cut their ties to criminal organisations they will be moved back into the general prison population.”

A spokesman for Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said it had always been the case that gang members who resigned from their criminal organisations and proved they had walked away from that life would be allowed to move on.

“The authorities will, of course, keep an eye on the ones who have resigned and, if it turns out they were lying, they’ll go back in,” he said.

“The gangs now realise we mean business and they’ve made the right choice to give up that life and try to be rehabilitated.”

The State Government moved to have the bikies separated in jail because of their propensity to recruit members and continue their illicit transactions while behind bars.

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