A new RTI by the Greens shows the corrections system is in crisis, with over 6,000 prison lockdowns occurring in 2024.
The Liberal Government is continuing to deliver worsening outcomes in the justice and corrections space, the latest report on Government Services shows.
Minister for Corrections, Madeleine Ogilvie MP, admitted in Legislative Council Budget Estimates today that it is unacceptable for the National Preventative Mechanism not to have the funding it needs to prevent the inhumane treatment or torture of Tasmanians in places where their freedoms are restricted.
Minister, I wanted to talk to you about the National Preventative Mechanism, which does impact on your portfolio responsibilities obviously
Yesterday, the Custodial Inspector released the Inhumane Treatment in Dry Cells Review. It is the first report of its kind in the nation and it is devastating reading.
It has long been recognised that Ashley Youth Detention Centre is an unsafe place for young Tasmanians. Young people have been abused and their rights have been repeatedly violated.
Today, the Custodial Inspector will table the inhumane treatment in dry cells review report, which confirms that people held in dry cells have been treated inhumanely in Tasmanian prisons.
We supported it because home detention orders provide a cheaper, safe and more therapeutic rehabilitative alternative than prison.
I understand in 2022 there were 1500 people released from full time custody.
I have a recommendation from 2018, from the Custodial Inspector, who noted that the prisoner pay scale at that point had not changed for 11 years.