Released 30/01/2019
The ACT now has a clear set of principles about how detainees should be supported from their initial contact with corrections through to their release.
The Government today released the Human Rights Principles for ACT Correctional Centres to help improve management of detainees in the ACT.
Minister for Corrections and Justice Health Shane Rattenbury said while the ACT’s Human Rights Act 2004 applies to everyone in the Territory, these formal principles clarify what that means for those in our adult correctional centres.
“These principles give real meaning to our commitment to human rights and supporting the successful reintegration of offenders into our community,” Mr Rattenbury said.
“The principles reflect what detainees, the ACT Government and the broader ACT community should expect from our corrections system.
“It will help to ensure detainees are not only safe, but continue to have appropriate access to treatment and rehabilitation.
“These principles will assist ACT Corrective Services to develop correctional centre policies and procedures that better support all detainees, including female, male, intersex and gender diverse, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally and linguistically diverse, those with a disability and older detainees.
“The principles aim to connect the detailed legal human rights framework governing our correctional centres with detainees’ experiences and the daily work of staff so that detainees, their families and the community can be clearly informed about how human rights should be respected.”
Minister Rattenbury and Dr Helen Watchirs, ACT Human Rights and Discrimination Commissioner, will be made available for interview tomorrow at 12:30pm, ACT Legislative Assembly Member’s Courtyard.
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