This report presents the results of a literature review on bail support programs and services commissioned by the ACT Justice and Community Safety Directorate as part of their Justice Reform Strategy.

This study supports previous findings that diversion for minor cannabis offences can save money and lead to better social consequences.

Disproportionate rates of Indigenous imprisonment are unfair, unsafe and unaffordable, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

This issues paper considers a new approach to the problem of repeat drink driving through the introduction of a specialist, problem-solving court.

This advice deals with broader systemic issues that arise directly out of the consideration of the operation of the bail system. At the moment, the greatest individual difficulty in the operation of bail and remand matters in the Magistrates’ Court is the failure to produce accused at court. The changes recommended in this report should...