Rehabilitation
Report
Understanding clients, treatment models and evaluation options for the NSW Aboriginal Residential Healing Drug and Alcohol Network (NARHDAN): a community based participatory research approach
This report details the processes and outcomes of working with six Aboriginal residential rehabilitation services in NSW to develop a standardised assessment tool, define their core treatment and organisational components, and develop an evaluation framework that could be used to evaluate individual treatment components.
Report
The forgotten victims: prisoner experience of victimisation and engagement with the criminal justice system
Many women in prison have experienced intimate partner violence. As this form of violence is often intergenerational and entrenched, women in prison are widely considered to be at particular risk of ongoing victimisation following release. And yet, with support needs often unrecognised, it is likely that a range of barriers exists that prevent ex-prisoners from...
Report
Update on Indonesian pro-ISIS prisoners and deradicalisation efforts
Introduction Prison authorities in Indonesia have had a few small successes in managing extremist prisoners, but overall, structural problems of the prison system and inadequate staff continue to defeat efforts at deradicalisation, disengagement and rehabilitation. Despite much donor funding aimed at improving prison management and capacity to handle high-risk offenders, pro-ISIS inmates continue to recruit...
Report
Beyond the prison gate: reoffending and reintegration in Aotearoa New Zealand
This report seeks to provide a 10-year update of what it could mean for New Zealand’s criminal justice system to look Beyond the Prison Gate. It is released on the cusp of 2017, a year of particular significance because it marks the deadline for the Government’s Better Public Services target to reduce the composite reoffending...
Statistics
Prison rehabilitation performance table: Q4 2015/16 performance grade for the 12 months to June 2016
Prison Performance Tables provide a quarterly grading of the performance of all prisons within the Corrections network in New Zealand. A number of factors are used in this analysis, and results are weighted to account for the particular composition of prisoners and facilities at each site. In previous years, all prison performance metrics were combined...