Media Appearances

Our Townsville team is featured in this Townsville Bulletin story following the Justice Reform Initiative (JRI) report about jailing released in May, 2023.

“A lot of people have gone into prison at the lowest point in their life. So now’s the time to give them programs and rehabilitation,” our local team say in the piece.

The report was commissioned by the JRI, a group of judges and academics set up in 2020 to reduce Australia’s reliance on incarceration.

“Queensland relies on a system of incarceration for children and adults that is harmful, expensive and ineffective,” the report states.

“Prison does not work to reduce crime, it does not work to build safer communities and it does not work to address the social drivers of contact with the criminal justice system.”

The full story is available to subscribers of the Townsville Bulletin here.