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INTRODUCTION Partnership with Batchelor Institute The Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education (Bachelor Institute) has been engaged as the main provider for education at the Darwin Correctional Centre (DCC) and Alice Springs Correctional Centre (ASCC) and has partnered with NTDCS under a Service Level Agreement for the delivery of vocational and non-vocational training courses, delivered at ASCC and DCC. An increased number of opportunities for accredited training, and training related projects, have commenced under the partnership, with a focus on vocational training within industry areas. This forms the basis of prisoners acquiring training in trade skills and recreates a typical work place environment. Early Intervention Youth Boot Camp The Loves Creek site provides young people with a connection to country and is designed as a multi-purpose space for the delivery of culturally appropriate and therapeutic programs, including the Early Intervention Youth Boot Camp (EIYBC) and the future pilot of the Sentenced Youth Boot Camp (SYBC) program for vulnerable young people in, or at risk of entering the justice system. The site officially opened in July 2015, with 32 young people participating, combined with a range of support staff and traditional owners attending. During 2015-16, three camps were held. In June 2016, NTDCS successfully negotiated with the Central Land Council, pastoral lease holders and the Traditional Owners of Loves Creek Station to amend the lease through a deed of variation to allow the property to also be used for the Sentenced Youth Boot Camps, the first of which will be held in August 2016. COMMIT Program In September 2015, NTDCS commenced scoping the viability of trialing a ‘swift, certain and fair’ sanction model similar to that of Hawaii’s Opportunity Probation with Enforcement (HOPE) strategy. A Steering Committee was established by January 2016, and is chaired by Supreme Court judge, Justice Southwood. Committee members include Chief Judge John Lowndes, as well as representatives from correctional services, police, legal policy, defence counsel, legal aid organisations and prosecutions. The Darwin based Compliance Management or Incarceration in the Territory (COMMIT) program trial of 12 months officially commenced on 27 June 2016, and continues to attract significant interest from the Supreme and Local Court Judges as well as probation and parole officers. COMMIT aims to reduce crime and drug use while also saving money spent on incarceration and prison costs. Community Corrections are closely monitoring the trial which will be evaluated in 2017. Electronic Monitoring NTDCS has successfully implemented electronic monitoring (EM) technology in Darwin, Alice Springs and over the past year, expanded to Jabiru, Groote Eylandt and Nhulunbuy, including all the prisoners at the Datjala Work Camp being electronically monitored. EM has been successfully tested in over 20 remote communities in the Northern Territory. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES 10
INTRODUCTION Strategic Issues for 2016-17 – from Budget Paper No. 3 • Improving prisoner education (especially literacy and numeracy) through access to a wide range of courses and skills development to support employability and reintegration upon release. • Improving participation in vocational education and training. • Increasing participation rates in correctional centre prisoner employment programs. • Expanding prisoner participation rates in Sentenced to a Job programs. • Providing well-ordered establishments in which we treat people in our care safely, securely, humanely and lawfully. • Ensuring that the Darwin Correctional Centre is fully developed and delivers a service in line with best practice models. • Providing programs and access to services that address underlying substance addiction and reduce a person’s alcohol consumption and/or use of illicit drugs. • Expanding electronic monitoring solutions in the Territory to provide enhanced monitoring and surveillance of offenders in the community. • Improving the health and wellbeing of people in custody by facilitating primary health care provision and extending their capacity to engage in their own health care and encouraging healthy lifestyles and wellbeing. Strategic planning NTDCS plays an important role in keeping our communities safe by reducing criminal offending through the rehabilitation of offenders. To deliver on our commitment to producing public value, our correctional services must not only be delivered in accordance with legislation and policy, but must also produce measurable harm reduction outcomes that meet community expectations. NTDCS has made significant investments over time to develop alternative custodial and community corrections options for offenders. These have included the expansion of ‘Working Prison’ concepts through Correctional Industries, the operation of Regional Work Camps at Tennant Creek and Nhulunbuy and the use of Electronic Monitoring Devices across the Northern Territory. With significant proportions of adult prisoners being held in custodial facilities on remand or, following sentencing, for non-violent offending, further investment in custody alternatives remain a priority. Intended outcomes of re-investing in alternatives both in custodial and community corrections include improved environments, reduced demand on custodial facilities and improved community reintegration and management. Planned future outcomes will build on the success of existing practical and innovative correctional interventions together with the introduction of models that expands the capacity of, and alternatives for, sentencing, accommodating and managing offenders. The outcomes, priority actions and deliverables set out in our new Purpose and Direction Strategy 2016-2020 will build on the success of existing practical and innovative correctional interventions through five strategic priorities. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES 11
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