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- Deaths in Custody
This is the heart and soul of our site; what we are all about!

These Campaigns Require Your Urgent Support
The issues and problems of criminal justice and prisons in New South Wales are ever-present. They emerge or disappear with changes of government or through the efforts of the community and activists committed to reform and change.

All too often, a particular issue emerges that demands an immediate response. We are all then presented with a moment of opportunity, a time when the support of many individuals and organisations, taken together, can make the fundamental difference in the outcome.


Don't forget to check out the 'Late News' (button at top) for current developments. We hope you'll come back regularly!



DNA Testing
DNA technology has great potential to assist in the investigation of a wide range of offences, identifying the guilty, exonerating the innocent and solving what would once have been insoluble cases. However it is still just a technology and subject to all of the limitations in the skill and integrity of those who use it.

Women In Prison
Women in prison are amongst those most marginalised, disempowered and abused.

Transgender Inmates
The New South Wales Corrections Health Service (CHS) estimates that about 80% of prisoners have been imprisoned for offences related to legal or illegal drug use or committed whilst under their influence.

Prisoner Health
The New South Wales Corrections Health Service (CHS) estimates that about 80% of prisoners have been imprisoned for offences related to legal or illegal drug use or committed whilst under their influence.

Police Misconduct, Corruption and Abuse
Justice Action regularly receives reports and allegations of miscarriages of justice; from within the prison walls and from community collisions with policing services.

Youth and Juvenile Justice
"Children who came directly under the power of the state for their own protection (state wards)... are now the largest per capita group in our juvenile jails (and hence, our adult jails)."

Deaths in Custody
Five such deaths occurred in Ausralia during the first month of 1997. Four took place in New South Wales; three involved the police and two, the prisons.


Also:
Private Prisons and Prison Labor
Case Review and Support
Prison Visits and Post Release
'Safe Cells'


Author: Justice Action: justiceaction@justiceaction.org.au
 
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Last modified: Wed, Jul 13, 2005