Prisons

Contents Overview Justice Action has prepared a package of four research papers to change the culture of imprisonment. They represent a new paradigm of prisoner responsibility and empowerment dealing with the issues of recidivism and safe resettlement in the community. They propose that time in prison becomes a period of active development before release, and

Contents Overview Imprisonment as a form of social control has not been fulfilling its purpose, with 42% of released prisoners return to prison within two years and 52.5% of released prisoners had returned to community services (prison or community corrections) within two years (Productivity Commission 2025). Despite the decreasing crime rates, the prison population has

‘The huge expenditure of public funds, however, is contrary to a large body of evidence showing that prisons are an ineffective mechanism to reducing offending in the community – it amounts to double that spent on building new schools, yet recidivism in NSW is the worst of all states.’ Click here to learn more. Contents What

Nordic Prisons less crowded, less punitive, better staffed Prison itself is not a modern idea. Putting people under lock and key, throwing them into the Tower of London, the Bastille in Paris, the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg, into dungeons underneath big castles or into small lock-ups or bridewells in towns and cities