Senator Wilkerson On The State Of Corrections
“We have initiated a comprehensive reform agenda,” the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Kim Wilkerson said today [Sept 29] in the Senate as she provided an update on the correction system.
The Attorney-General said, “I rise today to lay before this Honourable Senate the Annual Reports for the years 2022, 2023, and 2024 for both the Parole Board and the Treatment of Offenders Board, and to update this Chamber on the state of our correctional system, acknowledging both the challenges we face and the significant steps this Ministry is taking to advance reform and restorative justice. These Reports were submitted by the respective boards to comply with the requirements of the Treatment of Offenders Board Act 1979 and the Parole Board Act 2001.
“The reports from the Treatment of Offenders Board are forthright in their assessment, detailing significant challenges, particularly concerning the physical infrastructure of our facilities and the critical lack of rehabilitative programming. I acknowledge these findings without reservation, but I also wish to assure this Honourable Senate that my Ministry and the Department of Corrections have been actively working to address these long-standing issues.”
The full The State of Corrections – Ministerial Statement follows below [PDF here]:
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