strengthening community safety through managing growth in prisoner numbers
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Strengthening Community Safety Strengthening Community Safety
through Managing Growth in through Managing Growth in Prisoner NumbersPrisoner Numbers
90% Growth2004 - 2015
Forecast Growth Growth per annum of 7% SEQ, 3% Central, 5% Northern
2004- 2015
Forecast Growth
Current infrastructure will not sustain the Current infrastructure will not sustain the continuing growth in prisoner numberscontinuing growth in prisoner numbers
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Male PrisonersPrison Expansions and New Prisons
Growth per annum of 7% SEQ, 3% Central, 5% Northern
Cost of development of futureMale Infrastructure
$2.2 Billion
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Female PrisonersGrowth per annum of 7% SEQ, 5% Northern
Cost of development of futureFemale Infrastructure
$250 million
Infrastructure Development
Factors Increasing Prisoner Growth
Tougher penaltiesStatic Dynamic
Static Dynamic
Increased use of custody as sentencing option combined with a decreased use of Community Correctional Orders
Static Dynamic Increased use of Remand
Custody as a safe alternative for people with intellectual disabilities/mental illness
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Legislation
Improved detection of crime
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Static Dynamic
Factors Increasing Prisoner Growth
Crime RatesStatic Dynamic
Increased use of partially suspended sentencesStatic Dynamic
Conservative granting of early release options
Abolition of remission
Factors Increasing Prisoner Growth
Static Dynamic
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• Enhance community safety
• Contribute to public value
• Place offenders in lowest risk environment
• Increase successful completion rates
• Decrease returns to custody
Project Aims
Diverting low risk
Managing high risk
Ten Year Plan
Improve custodial services
• Replacement of old facilities• Commissioning built beds• Temporary units• Building on current sites• New facilities on new sites
Improve community
services
• Improve completions• Realign office sites• Target resource to need• Bail diversion (Department of Housing)• Court advice• Court assessment• Contemporary orders (JAG)• Improve supervision
• Improve assessments• Improve current programs• Introduce new programs• Strengthen relapse prevention• Train supervise and support facilitators• Decrease wait lists
Reduce recidivism
Alternatives to new infrastructure
• Divert low risk, non-violent, short term offenders from custody
• Increase the efficacy of Community Corrections to supervise, support and address needs
• Match resources to local needs • Improve services through partnerships• Regain the confidence of the judiciary in community
based orders
New Community Corrections Model
Strategy A
Strategy A
Enhancing Programs
- Separate compliance and facilitation roles - Extend delivery capacity (A/hours week-ends) - Establish new locations - Decrease waiting time - Accredit facilitators in remote areas - Mobilise programs staff (from hubs) - Use new technologies - Establish partnerships for local program delivery
Program HubProgram Offices
Normanton
Mornington Island
Mt Isa
Thursday Island
Cooktown
Cairns
Townsville
Weipa
Brisbane CBD
Springwood/Logan
IpswichSouthport
Toowoomba
Maroochydore
Roma
Maryborough
Mackay
Rockhampton
Emerald
Pine Rivers
Legend
Programs Presence
Surveillance Breaches Reparation
Induction &
Assessment
Compliance
Offender Management(case management)
Criminogenic Programs(High Risk)
Parole Boards
CourtsCustody
Strategy A
Improving Services
Bail Support
Supported accommodation and community support services through partnerships
Target offenders with unstable lifestyles: - minor offences
- no previous custodial history- unstable lifestyles- potentially ‘at risk’ of homelessness
Strategy B
Bail Support
Provide services to the 5 major courts in Queensland
Access suitability through: - a request by defendants legal representative- request from Magistrate- self referral- assessed by assessment officer
Bridge the gap between Department of Housing’s Homelessness services and minimising remand numbers
Strategy B