While some educational and rehabilitative programs offered in gaol and on release can be useful, many suffer from being delivered by people who have little understanding of the effect of life in prison. These programs are also delivered in a context where the client has little control or choice other than to cop it sweet
The issue about who controls the services for vulnerable people is very significant. Latest newsSuzette’s LessonCallan Park Mental Health Consumer ProjectProductivity Commission Mental Health Inquiry 2020Women’s Justice Network Takeover Productivity Commission – JA Submission July 2016 Identifying Sector for Reform OverviewThe Productivity Commission in 2011 proposed the NDIS for disabled people, giving them the choice of
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LATEST NEWS ON MICHAEL’S CASE Appalling Outcome Report: Rehospitalised – 16th November 2016 OVERVIEW Michael Riley is a warm, bright, gentle giant in his late 30’s. He is currently employed at a union and is the loving father of a four-and-a-half year old daughter who starts school this year. While Michael lives, works and is
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Graphic footage aired on the ABC’s Four Corners Program has shed light on the brutal mistreatment of young boys in the juvenile justice system between 2010 and 2015. Detainees as young as thirteen were repeatedly stripped naked, thrown against walls, kneed and knocked to the ground, forcefully restrained, placed in solitary confinement for extended periods and sprayed
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Although detained, people in prisons and locked hospitals are still citizens who are affected by government policy and do have the right to elect those who govern them. Prisoners and mental health consumers have family and friends on the outside and when they complete their sentence, they will join the world outside and be affected
Media Release Monday November 23, 2015 A unique analysis launched today reveals that Taronga Zoo’s gorillas are legally given twenty four times more space than people held inside the private Parklea prison. They are provided natural habitats and have enforceable rights. Additionally NSW Premier Mike Baird has pledged $57 million to improve the facilities of Taronga Zoo
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This unique analysis compares the treatment of zoo animals and prisoners. The findings reveal that Taronga Zoo’s gorillas are given twenty four times more space than people held inside the private Parklea prison. This research shows that zoos have stringent safeguards maintaining much higher standards than prisons to ensure that captive animals receive adequate care.
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