Media Release 29 October 2015 “As Mental Health Month ends, Saeed Dezfouli comes before the Mental Health Review Tribunal today with detailed evidence of the harm caused by the anti-psychotic drugs forced on him. His lawyer Peter O’Brien will ask the Tribunal to stop it. His case shows the fundamental disrespect we have for those […]
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Media Release Thursday November 19, 2015 None of the twenty-six submissions to the Parliamentary Inquiry support the action of Corrections Minister David Elliott in creating a ‘living dead’ status, under pressure from the media. The victims’ organisations support offender rehabilitation programs, want respect for prisoners’ human rights and increased funding for victims. Most submissions (analysis) criticised the information provided to victims
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Media Release Monday November 23, 2015 Today from 9am the NSW Law & Justice Committee will hold public hearings into the treatment of life sentence prisoners never to be released. Justice Action will bring people with special experience to give evidence to the Committee at 11.15am. Mr Robert Veen is an Aboriginal man who has served two
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Media release Monday November 19, 2018 “Secret Victim Impact Statements (VIS) as proposed in the law before Parliament this week would deny the victim and mentally ill offender involvement in restorative justice. It is a misunderstanding of the process and must not pass. The victims’ groups agree with us”. “Passing the Bill would mean that the victim
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Media release Friday 7th December 2018 “Justice Health is attempting to rip off mentally ill patients in the Long Bay Forensic Hospital by taking their pensions. They are the most vulnerable members of society and receive the Disability Support Pension. This allows them to pull their lives together and build their future. The ALP and
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On the 1st of May 2020, the Supreme Court of Victoria released an interim ruling for the case of Mark Rowson, who had requested temporary release from Port Phillip Prison during the COVID-19 pandemic on the basis of his susceptible health risks. The judge ordered (at [58]) Corrections Victoria to undertake a formal risk assessment
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The SA Ombudsman Wayne Lines has made a resounding criticism of the Department of Correctional Services attempts to block SA prisoners’ access to iExpress and its full internet services. For over a year DCSSA has blocked South Australian prisoners from any communication with Justice Action, declaring it to be a “media outlet” and finally just naming Justice
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Why capitalism needs jails and why the two must fall together “Crime pays. I hate saying that, but it really does.”Arthur McDonald, former owner of California’s largest private prison firm With violence and terror as its tools, the prison system works to serve capitalism and maintain the current social order. Prisons in collaboration with the
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