Eight Fingers and a Keyboard Short: Prisoners Locked Out of Learning Media Release April 16, 2025 “‘No,’ said the Minister for Corrections when asked whether it’s a serious disadvantage for prisoners to be typing with ‘two thumbs instead of ten fingers’ (p89) on computer tablets. With that problematic answer to the Parliament, he effectively explained […]
Miriam Merten Mental Hospital Death Inquiry Media Release 22nd December 2017 Whitewash Merten Death Mental Report Media Release: Friday December 22nd 2017 The Review by the Chief Psychiatrist following the death of patient Miriam Merten at Lismore Hospital, made very serious criticisms of the NSW Mental Health System, but didn’t make a single recommendation that
Current Campaigns: Justice Action proposes and agitates for change in social justice policies across topics such as mental health, human rights, deaths in custody and prisoner education. To achieve change we focus, analyse and publish our views as the basis for action. Below are the current campaigns we are advocating for. Just Us Publications Just Us
LATEST NEWSReport Youth Justice Senate InquiryFlip the Switch FlyerSenate Inquiry submission 2024Youth Access to Computers in Cells – Australasian Youth Justice Conference 2024Computers in Cells for Youth Detainees 17/11/23Petition: Call for Computers in Cells for Juvenile DetaineesUniversity of Southern Queensland PresentationPrisonPC ReportJuvenile Justice Summit Agenda 4-5 May 2017 OverviewThe current failures of the juvenile justice
Draft Detainee Details of some current and past campaigns An overview of some leading current campaigns is provided, followed by a history of past campaign work. Details of some current campaigns 1. Youth Crime JA/Mission Australia Partnership JA is working with Mission Australia to conduct a series of mentoring workshops for many young people in
Beyond Bars – Crime Fact Sheet It is often taken for granted in popular and media debate that we are experiencing a ‘crime wave’. The threat of a ‘crime wave’ seems to plague our TVs and newspapers. Criminals rule the streets! Our children aren’t safe! Crime rates are soaring!. Actually, it’s a bit more complicated.
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Latest News Chemical restraint definitionChief Psychiatrist Misleading Communique – 28 August 2023Resources Against Forced MedicationNathan Chetty: His StoryTackling Your CTOCommunity Treatment OrdersCall for withdrawal of the Chief Psychiatrist’s Communique – 2014Stopping Forced Medication in Prisons.Victorian Royal Commission: Analysis of ReportForced Medication Rejection ReportNegotiations With Key Decision Makers Regarding Their Policy StatementsMental Health Lobbying Report – 09
An End of Decade View of the Royal Commission Recommendations into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody April 1991/April 2001 In late 1987 the Hawke Government finally relented and called for the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. 124 deaths were presented to the Commissioners but they only investigated 99 which occurred between 1980 – 1989. Not
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Graphic footage aired on the ABC’s Four Corners Program has exposed the brutal mistreatment of young boys in the Juvenile Justice System between 2010 and 2015. The Four Corners footage showed detainees as young as thirteen being repeatedly stripped naked, thrown against walls, kneed and knocked to the ground. Furthermore, detainees were placed in solitary confinement for excessive
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