DEPARTMENT FOR CORRECTIONAL SERVICES
• 9 Prisons (1550 Offenders)
• 16 Community Corrections Centres (5500 Offenders)
• 1350 Staff
• Part of SA Justice Portfolio (Police, Courts, Attorney General, Emergency Services, Corrections)
• Collaborative Arrangements
CROSS AGENCY COLLABORATION
• Justice Strategy Unit (develop Justice Policy, organise and manage cross agency initiatives, contribute to Whole of Government initiatives)
• Justice Portfolio Leadership Council
• Criminal Justice Leadership Council
• Office of Crime Statistics and Research (OCSAR)
• Justice Technology Service
SOCIAL INCLUSION BOARD
• Whole of Government Initiative
• Strategic Focus on major Social Inclusion issues for the State (Homelessness, Drug Summit, School Retention, Young Offenders)
• DCS is managing a range of Initiatives
• Throughcare
• Alcohol and other Drugs (Community Corrections and Prisons)
• Homelessness
PRISONER HEALTH SERVICES
• Memorandum of Understanding between Minister for Health and Correctional Services
• Provision of Primary and Mental Health Services in all Prisons
• Development of joint service initiatives
• Implementation of Social Inclusion Board Initiatives
• Steering Committee and Operational Officers Group manage the interface
JUSTICE COLLABORATION
• Monthly Meeting with Courts Administration Authority and Chief Magistrate
• Centre for Restorative Justice
• Aboriginal Justice Consultative Committee
• Chief Justice Round Table
• MOU with Disability Services
CROSS JURISDICTIONAL COLLABORATION
• Corrective Services Administrators Conference
• Corrective Services Minister’s Conference
• The National Corrective Services Statistics Unit (NCSSU)
• National Corrections Advisory Group (NCAG)
• National Corrective Services Advisory Committee (NCSAC)
• Heads of Community Corrections Group (HCCG)
CROSS JURISDICTIONAL COLLABORATION
• Standard Guidelines for Corrections
• Integrated Competency Framework
• National Data Set (Prison Census and Community Corrections Census)
• Joint Projects (Mobile Phone jamming)
• Emerging Technologies Group
• Sharing of Intelligence
• Interstate Prisoner Transfer Initiative
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Community-based sentences
Features of Community Service
• Widely used
• Restorative Justice
• Community benefit
• Low cost
COMMUNITY SERVICE
Community Service Partnerships
• Courts
• Communityagencies
• Training opportunities
CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE PROJECT
Cross-border Region
6,500 Aboriginal people
Poverty & disadvantage
High Crime Rate
CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE PROJECT
Offending
• Vehicles (17%)
• Assaults (11%)
• Public Order (11%)
• Property Damage (8%)
• Non Compliance
• Alcohol & Substance Misuse
CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE PROJECT
Background to C-BJP
6 focal points
• Legislation & policies
• Police
• Demographic study
CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE PROJECT
6 focal points(cont’d)
• Strengthening communities
• Operational co-operation
• Shared Correctional programs & facilities
CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE PROJECT
Shared Correctional programs & facilities
• Low-security correctional facilities
CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE PROJECT
Shared Correctional programs & facilities
• Low-security correctional facilities
• Culturally- appropriate programs
CROSS-BORDER JUSTICE PROJECT
Shared Correctional programs & facilities
• Low-security correctional facilities
• Culturally-appropriate programs
• Alice Springs Correctional Centre