Miller seeks jail release

Press, 7 August 1982, Page 9

Miller seeks jail release

NZPA Sydney The jailed entrepreneur, Harry M. Miller, has applied to be released on special licence after serving only three months in Sydney's Long Bay Jail. A spokesman for the New South Wales Corrective Services'Minister (Mr Rex Jackson) said yesterday that his application would be processed by prison officials and go with a recommendation to the Minister, who would make the final decision.

‘ Earlier this year Mr Jackson told jails that any 'prisoner with a sentence or non-parole period of less than 12 months was eligible for release on licence. Miller qualifies for consideration because his non-parole

period was set at 10 months. He was sentenced to three years jail in -May on fraud charges relating to the collapse of the computer book-, ing agency Computicket. Miller has aroused controversy in Long Bay Jail since his sentence began. Prisoners this week complained to the New South Wales Ombudsman that he was receiving special treatment. . ; They asserted that he had been given a key to a telephone and was making up to 30 calls a day, and that he was getting more than the allowed number of visitors each week. Prisoners said that Miller was still running his show business and cattle breeding interests from inside the jail.