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Welcome to Justice Action |
 The 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 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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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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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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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 |
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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 - 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 |
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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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