Corrections Minister Fran Logan looks set to survive a prison riot and break-out that would put most politicians' careers on a mortuary slab.

Given the report into the Greenough incident comes on the back of a stack of damning Corruption and Crime Commission investigations into everything from drugs in prisons to inmates having sex in fast-food restaurant toilets, it seems astonishing he doesn't even seem to have lost any paint.

Corrective Service Minister Fran Logan will survive the political fall-out of the Greenough Prison Riot. Credit:Fairfax Media

Labor politicians who were around for the 2004 Supreme Court escape still wince when they recall the TV footage of nine prisoners bolting through Perth streets.

It's the stuff of political nightmares, and no politician wants to be responsible for dangerous criminals on the loose.