Conference paper

Victorian community corrections review - progress to date

David Daley
Director, Community Correctional Services, Victoria

Presented at:
Probation and community corrections : making the community safer
Novotel Langley, Perth
23-24 September 2002

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Abstract

In May 2001, the State Government of Victoria announced the allocation of $334.5 million over four years to overhaul corrections in Victoria. This included $42.3 million to redevelop Community Correctional Services, $30.2 million to enhance rehabilitative and diversionary programs to reduce re-offending and $262 million to increase permanent capacity across the prison system.

This paper examines the specific objectives for which redevelopment funding was awarded to Community Correctional Services, the progress in addressing those targets, and the lessons which have been learned along the way. Although the redevelopment process is a Victorian initiative, it is argued that its major themes and current preoccupations share a high degree of commonality with issues being confronted in many community correctional jurisdictions. The redevelopment experience has raised both process and content issues which may be of broad interest to the community correctional audience throughout Australia.