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Why jailing is failing South Australia
Imprisonment is an expensive, increasingly ineffective default response which perpetuates a cycle of reoffending and it’s time to consider alternatives, argues Chris Sumner and Robert Hill.
Imprisonment is an expensive, increasingly ineffective default response which perpetuates a cycle of reoffending and it’s time to consider alternatives, argues Chris Sumner and Robert Hill.
A group of prominent South Australians including former senior judges and politicians across the party divide has called on the Malinauskas Government to embark on major reform of the state’s prison system.
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Legislation to cut sentencing discounts for serious offenders in South Australia will go before state parliament this week.
Convicted South Australian drug smuggler Cassie Sainsbury has been released from a Colombian prison after serving half of her six-year sentence.