Campaigns

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 […]

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

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

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