Home

Re-entry & Rehabilitation

Community Re-entry & Rehabilitation

Parole - Introduction

Parole is the conditional release of selected prisoners who have already served part of their sentence. It means prisoners can serve the remainder of their sentence in the community under the supervision of a community corrections officer.

Housing - COSPs - new quasi prison system

There has been a dangerous development of a quasi-prison system being created around the resettlement of ex prisoners. Before enacting a new housing law to evict Ray (Dennis) Ferguson, he was told a COSP (Community Offender Support Programs) would be the only place available for him!

JA Mentoring

Changing the culture of criminal justice Justice Action sees restorative justice and mentoring as the way forward with social problems. Both are rational extensions of community support which satisfy the needs of victims and make us all safer. But the prison industrial complex is fighting tooth and nail to keep…

JA Mentoring

The JA Mentoring Project For some years now Justice Action has been exploring the idea of a 'mentoring project'. The idea behind this is that ex-prisoners are probably the best people to offer support and advice to other prisoners, ex-prisoners and people caught up in the justice system. While some…

JA Mentoring on youTube

{YouTubeVideo id=n2KQD0mZY9s} Mentoring is about building a relationship of mutual trust, friendship and support within which help, advice and assistance can be offered as part of the process of re-building a life after being labelled a criminal and where many barriers actively prevent return to normal life.

Chris Binse

Media release: 24 May, 2012 CHRIS BINSE - BADNESS OR BAD SYSTEM? Siege: The last stand of an excluded The disturbance and fear in the Melbourne suburb of Keilor during the two day seige was totally unnecessary. That is part of the cost of ignoring a proposal seven years…

Prisons as part of the Community

This is a key to JA's work.It was presented to the NSW Legislative Council 2009 as part of the campaign against the corporate privatisation of prisons. It is an analysis of the conflicting policies of social exclusion and community building, giving examples of how they conflict in practice and offering…

Therapeutic Communities

Therapeutic communities with restorative justice and mentoring are effective solutions to community problems. Our own experience of positive responses to trust and sharing are entirely applicable in the area of crime. The Alexander Maconochies Norfolk Island experience, Jimmy Boyles story of the Barlinnie Unit in Scotland, and the Special Care…

Prisoners Legal Service Review

Justice Action was asked to respond to the Federal Government's Prisoners Legal Service Review. The following is the JA Submission Introduction Thank you for giving Justice Action the opportunity to make submissions in relation to the current review of the Prisoners Legal Service. We offer the following comments and…