The Royal Commission into Victoria’s Mental Health System identified a ‘broken’ system that was ‘failing to support those who needed it’. The Volumes and Final Report that resulted from the Commission found that the over-reliance on seclusion, restraint and involuntary treatment is no longer fit for purpose. There is now a need for a paradigm
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Download Flyer here: CJC Education for Patients Flyer 2021 See our full report here: CJC Educational Opportunities for Patients 2021 Access to education is now available for people in locked hospitals regardless of where they are, or their previous educational experience. University courses and programs are now accessible without the need for Internet or any
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Media release: August 3, 2012 “Mental health patient Saeed Dezfouli who won a court challenge to study law whilst being held in the Forensic Hospital, has been refused the tools necessary to do the course. His lawyer has advised him to return to court to assert his right in practice. This situation provides an insight into how
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Overview Latest News Educational Opportunities for Patients Report and Flyer 2021 Saeed Dezfouli Media Release (August 2012) Anti-Discrimination: Right to Education
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On Wednesday, 3rd of February 2021, Justice Action facilitated a meeting between Timor-Leste Consul-General Luciano Valentim Da Conceicao and the President of the Community Justice Coalition and International Commission of Jurists, The Hon John Dowd AO QC. In the meeting, there were several points that importantly highlighted the agreement to collaborate and support the creation
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Justice Action has accomplished a lot during 2020 that we are proud of, let’s rewind and look at a few of our outstanding achievements: Computer tablets into five prisons with all prisoners having them in their cells, connected to the internet with whitelisted websites and with a phoneDeaths in custody national national database proposal and
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Media release: Friday December 18, 2020 “All mental health authorities across Australia have responded in this Report about the forced medication of 74 year old mother of five Kerry O’Malley. Her case was won in the Supreme Court. It was illegal abuse of a gentle woman” said Justice Action Coordinator Brett Collins. “The injections caused
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Currently, LEPRA authorises strip-searches upon ‘reasonable grounds’ of necessity, urgency and existing circumstances. With the criteria of ‘reasonable grounds’ undefined and vague, strip-searches are conducted inconsistently and are therefore an arbitrary use of power. Additionally, police are permitted to use ‘reasonable force’ in conducting strip-searches. With this also vague, strip-searches are subject to further vulnerability,
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The effects of strip-searches are significant and varied. They have the capacity to trigger traumatic memories of prisoners, with 45% of women in prison reporting that they experienced abuse by a partner the year prior to incarceration, and 49% of all female prisoners’ victims of some form of child abuse. Additionally, strip-searches exacerbate the disproportionate
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