WESTERN Australia's prisons minister says there was never any risk of a jailbreak despite last week's discovery of a hole cut into a fence at one of the state's prisons.
The state's Department of Corrective Services has confirmed the alarming discovery at Acacia prison, which can house more than 1000 medium-security prisoners.
But prisons minister Joe Francis says there had been no real danger of an escape.
"What happened here is the system worked," Mr Francis told ABC radio.
"I'm not going to go into the operational issues of it, but you can rest assured there was never any threat to the public of these people getting out.
"Intelligence was gathered that obviously discovered people plotted to escape, and it was stopped very quickly."
An investigation has been launched into the potential security breach.
"Appropriate actions have been taken and there is no risk to the community," a spokeswoman for Corrective Services said.
The WA Prison's Officers Union said continuing staff shortages were contributing to growing issues in WA prisons, but Mr Francis rejected that as a "cheap shot".
"There are five thousand people behind bars in Western Australia, and many of them spend an awful lot of time trying to escape," Mr Francis said.
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