Tasmanian Times
All posts tagged "prisons"
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1.1KArticleCOSS Directors Back Raising Age of Criminal Responsibility
Media release – Council of Social Services (COSS), 16 June 2021 COSS directors call for national action to raise the age of...
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New Report Says Jailing is Failing Tasmania
Tasmanian politicians of all stripes have been urged to collaborate and commit to reforming the state’s archaic criminal justice system. The call...
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Inspector’s Report into Youth Custodial Services
You can read the full report here. Unfortunately the Custodial Inspector has chosen to release the report in a locked format which...
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Prison System Issues
Media release – Michael Ferguson, Acting Attorney-General and Minister for Corrections, 23 July 2020 Addressing the issues facing the State’s correctional system...
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9.9KThink
Risdon Prison is No Place for Rehabilitation
It was because torture, flogging, and hanging became repugnant to community sensibilities and their efficacy questioned, that they were ultimately abolished in...
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Prisons Problem Looms
Tasmania is facing a prisons problem as the risk of coronavirus grows. In Iran, authorities released tens of thousands of prisoners in...
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Coronavirus Must Not Enter Prisons
Media release – Justice Action, Friday 20 March, 2020 Coronavirus must not enter prisons Justice Action has called upon Attorneys General to...
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Corrections in Crisis
In almost two decades of advocating on behalf Tasmania’s prisoners and seeking reform of what is the worst performing sector of government...
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They Said It – More Of This Week’s Media Releases
container deposit scheme (CDS) – Senator Helen Polley (ALP) berated the state government over the apparent slowness of the introduction of a CDS,...
