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The Social Justice Commissioner, and the Commission itself, are committed to advocating for implementation of justice reinvestment in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and to bringing federal governments together with state and territory governments to embrace these approaches.

I showcase a number of developments towards justice reinvestment in Australia, including ground - breaking community initiatives in Bourke and Cowra, and highlight some of the challenges for implementing justice reinvestment based on the Australian context and international experience.

A Shorten Labor Government will provide the resources for a long - term study of justice reinvestment in Bourke, to see what Australia can learn.

Recommendation 4: That all state and territory governments consider justice reinvestment in tandem with their plans to build new prisons.

Smart Justice for Young People is calling on the Victorian Government to develop a state - wide strategy for a justice reinvestment policy and to commit to trialling and evaluating justice reinvestment in selected communities.

Furthermore, with positive initial trials recently being conducted into Indigenous youth justice reinvestment in NSW and South Australia, it is time for COAG to implement national justice targets and justice reinvestment plans.

The pressing need to explore justice reinvestment in Victorian is largely driven by prison overcrowding (prisoner numbers up 42 % since 2004), disproportionately high percentage of Aboriginal people making up the youth justice and adult prison populations, record high re-offending rates of prisoners at 40 %, and the rocketing expenditure (over $ 1 billion last year).

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We hope that this evening's vigil will play a part in driving home in Government the urgent need for long - term reinvestment to ensure that the public remain safe and that confidence in the justice system is restored.»

At the Ohio Criminal Sentencing Commission's website, one can now find these background documents with more information concerning the state's reinvestment in justice reinvestment:

And the Legislature noted in its budget bill that this appropriation was «to partially implement the civil justice reinvestment plan,» indicating their recognition of the need for additional revenues in future biennia.

Legal Action Group released a new report, Justice in freefall, analysing the latest legal aid statistics from the Ministry of Justice and recommending immediate commencement of the LASPO review, reinvestment of the civil legal aid budget underspend in an innovation fund and a public information campaign about what problems legal aid is available for.

«The Australian Human Rights Commission has long supported a justice reinvestment approach that addresses the social determinants of health and invests in the expertise provided by Indigenous organisations.»

That is why in this chapter I look to justice reinvestment from the United States as a new approach that may hold the key to unlocking Indigenous Australians from the cycle of crime and escalating imprisonment rates.

One example I deal with in this report is how justice reinvestment can reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system.

For my last report I have chosen to focus on justice reinvestment to reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system; the protection of Indigenous languages; and sustaining Aboriginal homeland communities.

The committee recommends that the Commonwealth Government contribute to the development of justice reinvestment trials at sites in each state and territory.

Justice reinvestment is a model that has as much in common with economics as social policy.

A Parliamentary inquiry into the harmful use of alcohol in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities released in 2015 also recommended investing in Justice reinvestment.

This year's report will focus on: justice reinvestment to reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system; protection of Indigenous languages; and sustaining Aboriginal homeland communities.

Victoria has much to learn from other jurisdictions, particularly the United States (US) and other Australian states and territories, especially NSW, which are further advanced in their exploration of and implementation of justice reinvestment approaches.

When considered in conjunction with Chapter 2 of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Report 2009 and the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee's 2013 Report titled «Value of a justice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia», we will understand that solutions are within our grasp if politicians have the courage and willingness to embracJustice Report 2009 and the Senate's Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee's 2013 Report titled «Value of a justice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia», we will understand that solutions are within our grasp if politicians have the courage and willingness to embracjustice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia», we will understand that solutions are within our grasp if politicians have the courage and willingness to embracjustice in Australia», we will understand that solutions are within our grasp if politicians have the courage and willingness to embrace them.

Bullen said the Bourke Tribal Council has full control of the data that is collected under the Growing Our Kids Up Safe, Smart and Strong strategy that guides the project, the first major justice reinvestment initiative in Australia.

Cultural solutions, respect, collaboration and setting achievable justice targets are key themes in chapter five, Community - driven innovation — Justice reinvejustice targets are key themes in chapter five, Community - driven innovation — Justice reinveJustice reinvestment.

Her recommendations include justice reinvestment pilots in Aboriginal communities and consideration of a New Zealand Corrections case - management initiative to cut reoffending by 25 per cent over five years.

Panellist, Melanie Schwartz, Chief Investigator, of the Australian Justice Reinvestment Project shared her observations of how justice reinvestment has played out in Justice Reinvestment Project shared her observations of how justice reinvestment has played out in justice reinvestment has played out in the US.

Justice reinvestment is about shifting spending away from prisons and juvenile detention expansion towards prevention, such as early childhood education in vulnerable communities, targeting young people at risk of school disengagement, intensive case work support with housing and employment support, and job creation.

This sort of modelling supports the justice reinvestment argument that imprisonment simply does not make good economic sense, and — conversely — that investing in mental health services in our communities does.

Adopting a justice reinvestment approach means investing in disadvantaged communities — not prisons — to develop and implement local solutions addressing economic and social determinants and risk factors behind youth offending.

Researchers from the Australian National University, led by Dr Jill Guthrie, are conducting an innovative community research study in Cowra, NSW to evaluate the potential use of a justice reinvestment approach to addressing crime, and particularly the imprisonment of the town's young people.

Overall, Indigenous Australians have significantly lower access to mental health services, private or public, than other Australians and it thus makes sound policy and economic sense that investing in mental health services for Indigenous Australians should be one avenue to explore through justice reinvestment programs.

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In accordance with the functions set out in section 46C (1)(a) of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth), this report includes 4 recommendations on justice reinvestment to reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system, 7 recommendations for the protection of Indigenous languages and 1 recommendation for sustaining Aboriginal homeland communitieIn accordance with the functions set out in section 46C (1)(a) of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth), this report includes 4 recommendations on justice reinvestment to reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system, 7 recommendations for the protection of Indigenous languages and 1 recommendation for sustaining Aboriginal homeland communitiein section 46C (1)(a) of the Australian Human Rights Commission Act 1986 (Cth), this report includes 4 recommendations on justice reinvestment to reduce Indigenous over-representation in the criminal justice system, 7 recommendations for the protection of Indigenous languages and 1 recommendation for sustaining Aboriginal homeland communitiein the criminal justice system, 7 recommendations for the protection of Indigenous languages and 1 recommendation for sustaining Aboriginal homeland communities.

Labor: Does not mention justice issues in its Indigenous health election statement but Opposition leader Bill Shorten pledged last November to set justice targets with a focus on community safety, preventing crime and reducing incarceration, and to support research into justice reinvestment.

It notes the growing movement in Australia advocating for justice reinvestment, including by the Just Reinvest NSW campaign and Change the Record and in the call for a trial from the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committeee in 2013.

Governments should also work in partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, their organisations and representative bodies to support the identification and development of place - based justice reinvestment trial sites.

Early indications from trials in Australia suggest that adopting a local justice reinvestment approach will pay bigger long - term dividends than a «tough on crime» approach.

This report recommends that justice reinvestment strategies should redirect these resources to overcoming the deprivation and despair in so many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

For example, the justice reinvestment body should be overseen by a board with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leadership, and all initiatives to reduce the harmful effects of alcohol in communities should be developed with, and led by, these communities to meet their particular needs.

She highlighted the work of justice reinvestment programs such as «Clean Slate Without Prejudice» in Redfern and urged the government to review such successful initiatives for replication «while adapting these community led initiatives to local conditions, in targeted areas throughout the country».

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There is a lot we can learn from justice reinvestment policies in the United States, and emerging interest in this approach in the United Kingdom.

Imprisonment rates are dropping in places where justice reinvestment is being implemented.

Reconciliation Australia welcomes the recommendations and emphasises the importance of a collaborative, community - led approach to justice reinvestment to tackle the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people — including youth — in the criminal justice system.

«What we see in Bourke demonstrates that justice reinvestment works,» said Mr. Mohamed.

Reconciliation Australia joins with Just Reinvest NSW, the Change the Record coalition, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisations and others in reaffirming the urgent need for sustained investment in communities, and a national, long - term approach to justice reinvestment, to lessen the disproportionate rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander incarceration across Australia.

A target to reduce imprisonment rates should be introduced, [141] and investing in mental health and drug and alcohol services be considered as a justice reinvestment measure.

[144] Consequently it makes sound policy and economic sense that investing in mental health services for them is an avenue to explored through justice reinvestment programs.

In April 2009 the House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee conducted hearings on justice reinvestment, taking evidence from representatives of the Justice Center and the Texas and Kansas state governments on the implementation of justice reinvejustice reinvestment, taking evidence from representatives of the Justice Center and the Texas and Kansas state governments on the implementation of justice reinveJustice Center and the Texas and Kansas state governments on the implementation of justice reinvejustice reinvestment.

There are some strong synergies between the current best practice in managing Indigenous offending and justice reinvestment.

[129] Just as justice reinvestment led to better resourced and more innovative parole and community corrections services in Texas and Kansas, justice reinvestment could be the impetus for improving Indigenous community justice services.