25,000 copies of JUST US (volume 7) have been distributed to people in prisons and locked hospitals throughout Australia prior to the Federal Election. All political parties contributed their statements as an expression of the constitutional right to receive and send political information. Despite the constitutional basis and right for the distribution of the newspaper,
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Just Us is the only publication distributed to the 44,000 people in prisons and locked hospitals throughout Australia. With the fast approaching 2016 Federal Election, this issue voices the people in prisons and hospitals. Just Us gives prisoners who are eligible to vote the right to fully participate in the electoral process and have the information
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Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1997) All Australian citizens have a constitutional right to engage in political communication not limited to election periods. Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1997)[1] is the leading authority for the implied freedom of political communication in the Australian Constitution: “…each member of the Australian community has an interest in disseminating
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The Justice Action team distributing the 2019 Edition of Just Us Just Us is the only publication to distribute 50,000 copies to people in prisons and locked hospitals throughout Australia. The latest issue focuses on the right to education within these facilities. This issue includes statements from political parties directed at prisoners addressing a prisoner’s
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Latest News Prisoner Education Survey Report 01/10/2024 Internet & prison education in WA Employment Resource List & Media Release ACEA Conference Denying Education to the Willing: The Jeffrey McKane Story RAND (Reports on the efficacy of prison education programs) Human Right to Education Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares that education
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“Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.”– International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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Latest News UN Inspection Blocked – Nov 2022International Torture Inspection Ignores Detainees – Oct 2022Implementation of OPCAT in Australia – Oct 2022SPT Visit to Australia – Aug 2022Medication of People with Disability: Breach of OPCATPrisoner Community AcknowledgementState-Sanctioned Sexual Assault: The Rally to Ban Strip Searches at Silverwater GaolDetainee Call: Advisory Group PositionAnalysis: OPCAT Progress in
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International Prisoners’ Justice Day August 10, marks the anniversary of the 1974 death of Eddie Nalon, a prisoner who bled to death in a solitary confinement unit at Millhaven Maximum Security Prison, Canada, when the emergency call button in his cell failed to work. An inquest later found that the call button in that unit
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Unfortunately, society in general and prison authorities, in particular, treat prisoners as outcastes(The Dalai Lama, 1999) ObjectivesTo provide community input into the NSW prison system in order to: Improve public perception of the criminal justice system. Improve offender rehabilitation rates. Reduce offender recidivism rates. Improve prospects for social reintegration post release. Develop personal and community
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