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Welcome to Justice Action

mntr_grp.jpgThe arc of the moral universe is long
... but it bends towards justice.
- Theodore Parker, abolitionist

 

Justice Action is a community based organisation of criminal justice activists. We are prisoners, academics, victims of crime, ex-prisoners, lawyers and general community members. We believe that meaningful change depends upon the free exchange of information, and communities taking responsibility.


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Mental health system corrupt - patient abuse

The closed system of the NSW Health Department’s mental hospitals is getting exposure through the window of patient Saeed Dezfouli. It shows systemic abuse of dependent people cloaked as care.
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Sex Offending

Sex Offences: hysteria v reality

This issue exposes the contradictions of personal behaviour, commercial interests and government responses like no other. Justice Action has for many years defended the apparently indefensible, embraced the most reviled, and feels that handling this issue properly will lead to a reconsideration of community values on punishment. The furore around Ray (Dennis) Ferguson has given us the focus.

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Current Campaigns

JA CAMPAIGNS LIST

Justice Action proposes and agitates for change in social justice policies. To achieve change we focus, analyse and publish our views as the basis for action.   Report 2009  Report 2008-9  Also below is a list of our campaigns. Each brief summarises a position paper often elsewhere on the website.
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Right to Choose

Smoking rights for Mental Health Consumers
NSW Health has imposed a smoke free policy on mental health locked facilities, removing exemptions. The vulnerable patients are traumatised. Eighty percent smoke. We support their dignity and 'right to choose' - personally controlled since European settlement. Media release 19/3/09     Smoking submission   But forced medication has increased.

 

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JA Mentoring

Changing the culture of criminal justice

Justice Action sees restorative justice and mentoring as the way forward with social problems. Both are rational extensions of community support which satisfy the needs of victims and make us all safer. But the prison industrial complex is fighting tooth and nail to keep its hostages, and us all afraid. New 4th Edn Handbook (pdf 1.4mb)


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Privatisation of NSW prisons
Government  announcement - GEO gets the poisoned chalice of Parklea! GEO campaign brief download.  Parliamentary Inquiry Report calls for 3 months pause for negotiation on Parklea. media release Government refuses.   The whole community says privatisation is morally wrong and irrational. The multinationals want more crime, more profit.  NO SALE NO SLAVERY!  Picket line photos. 
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ICOPA 13 Belfast
ICOPA 13 - Call for papers
Abolition, Reform and the Politics of Global Incarceration
23-25 June 2010

Queen's University
Belfast 


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Legal needs of prisoners forum NSW

This Forum was held on 14/10/08 following a Law and Justice Foundation report to improve prisoner access to legal assistance. Justice Action was present and presented a statement.

 

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