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On May 23, 219, Sky News Australia televised a report on a new supermax prison unit to be built in Victoria to house teenage inmates.
On April 12, 2019, Vox televised a report on Norway’s ‘humane’ prisons, where comfortable living arrangements are said to contribute to very low recidivism rates.
On February 8, 2018, Dr David Scott of Open University explained why he believes that conventional prisons inevitably fail as places of prisoner rehabilitation.
On August 20, 2013, 9 News televised a report on reforms to Victoria’s parole system in the wake of the rape and murder of Jill Meagher by Adrian Bayley who was on parole for multiple counts of rape when he killed Ms Meagher.
On December 22, 2018, PBS News Hour televised a report on President Trump having signed a landmark criminal justice bill. The First Step Act increases judges' discretion on sentencing low-level offenders, provides incentives for prison rehabilitation programs and requires inmates to be located within 500 miles of family.
On March 20, 2018, the Victorian Auditor General’s Office issued a report on the Safety and Cost Effectiveness of Victoria’s Private Prisons.
On October 13, 2016, Victoria’s leader of the Opposition, Matthew Guy, outlined the reforms his party would implement to reduce youth offending in Victoria.
On July 9, 2010, ABC News conducted a discussion with Rob Stary from the Law Institute of Victoria and Greg Davies from the Police Association regarding whether or not enough is done in the state to deter people from committing a crime while on bail.
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On July 3, 2019, The Age published a comment by Victoria's Ombudsman, Deborah Glass, titled 'Prisons blowout a legacy of remand crackdowns and repeat offenders'
Glass criticises the growth in Victoria's prison population and invites a more pro=active rehabilitative approach.
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On July 1, 2019, The Age published an editorial titled 'Crowded jails show need for review of Victoria's "war on crime"'
The editorial argues that dramatically rising numbers of inmates in Victoria's prisons indicates a need for the government to change its approach.
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On June 30, 2019, The Age published a report titled 'Women prisoner numbers explode amid state crackdown on male violence'
The report details the unintended consequence of increased numbers of women in prison following policy changes intended to reduce male violence.
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On June 28, 2019, The Age published a report titled 'Is there any way back from the war on crime?'
The analysis and comment criticises Victoria's focus on imprisonment as a crime control measure and speculates as to what other options may be available to the government.
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On June 28, 2019, The Age published a report titled 'Prisons to focus on rehabilitation not recidivism: Minister'
The report details the plans of the Victorian Corrections Minister, Ben Carroll, to overhaul Victoria's prison system and revise the Corrections Act to place an emphasis on prisoner rehabilitation.
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On June 27, 2019, The Age published a report titled, 'Prisons are booming as Victoria pays for its 'tough on crime' stance'
The report analyses Victoria's growing expenditure on the state's prisons and the impact this is having on government funding directed toward other areas.
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On June 3, 2019, The Guardian published a report titled 'Victoria criticised for $2bn prison spend while neglecting social housing'
Within this report the Victorian government is criticised for its growing expenditure on the state's prisons while neglecting public housing.
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On May 24, 2019, the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews, and the Minister for Corrections, Ben Carroll, issued a media release titled 'A Stronger Prison System to Keep People Safe'
The release outlines the government's proposed further reforms to the state's penal system.
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On March 2, 2019, The Age published a report titled 'Improving mental health key to reducing prison population: Andrews'
The report details the Victorian government's commitment to addressing mental health, in part as a means of lowering the state's imprisonment rate.
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In March 2019, the most recent Crime Statistic Agency of Victoria's figures were released covering the 12 months from March 31, 2018, to March 31, 2019. These show increases in some categories of crime.
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On January 24, 2019, The Age published a report titled 'Almost a third of Victorians feel unsafe at night on public transport'
The report details widespread levels of anxiety among Victorians travelling on public transport and when walking around their neighbourhoods at night.
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On December 20, 2018, The Age published a report titled 'Eight times each day in Victoria, someone on bail breaches a family violence order'. The report details the extent to which those on bail are breaching intervention orders and questions the efficacy of both the orders and the bail system in these instances. The full text can be accessed at
On December 11, 2018, 9 News televised a report titled 'Crime rates are falling - why do we have such a hard time believing that?'
The report examines the overall decline in crime rates across Australia and attempts to account for the persistent rates of popular anxiety about crime and public safety.
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On December 5, 2018, The Herald Sun published a report titled 'Victoria records increase in family violence over five-year period'
The report details the increase in reported incidents of family violence over the last five years.
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On November 5, 2018, ABC News televised a report titled 'Victoria's "madhouse" prisons are expensive, but are they making the state more dangerous?'
The analysis examined Victoria's growing recidivism and incarceration rates and suggested the state needed to find alternatives to imprisonment.
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On October 30, 2019, ABC News televised a report titled 'Victoria's mental health services "sink to the absolute bottom" with tragic consequences.'
The report examines the under resourcing of mental health in Victoria and suggests this is contributing to the state's increasing imprisonment rate.
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On September 20, 2018, the ABC published a report titled 'Victoria's crime rate has fallen again, figures show'
The report details the continuing decline in Victoria's overall crime rate and in key crime categories.
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On April 23, 2018, The Age published a report titled 'Jails bursting with unsentenced prisoners as costs also soar'
The report details the rapidly growing number of prisoners on remand in Victorian prison and the costs associated with catering for them.
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On January 24, 2018, The Sydney Morning Herald published a report titled 'Relatively safe, but scared. How Victoria became a state of fear'
The report details Productivity Commission figures indicating perceptions of public safety in different Australian states and territories. It reveals high levels of apprehension among Victorians surveyed.
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On October 19, 2017, ABC News televised a report titled 'Almost half of Victoria's prisoners are back in jail within two years of release'
The report analysed the high recidivism rate in Victoria's prisons and compared it with that in some other jurisdictions.
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On October 19, 2017, The Conversation published a comment by Lorana Bartels, Associate Professor and Head, School of Law and Justice, University of Canberra, titled 'Is Victoria's sentencing regime really more lenient?'
The comment suggests that for several categories of crime sentences in Victoria are less lenient than they are in most other states and territories.
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In June 2017 the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council published a report comparing rates of imprisonment in Victoria with those in other Australian states and territories.
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In April 2017, the former Director of Public Prosecutions and Supreme Court Justice, the Hon Paul Coghlan QC, released his formal review of Victoria's bail system undertaken for the state government.
The review made 37 recommendations to reform the bail system, all of which were accepted by the state government.
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On February 2, 2017, Mamamia published a comment by Caitlin Bishop titled 'To the people our system has failed: We are so, so sorry'. The comment details cases covering a five-year period during which men either on bail or parole committed murder in several Australian jurisdictions. Some of these offences occurred within Victoria.
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On July 26, 2016, Lexis Nexis published an analysis and comment titled 'Crime rates fall, but Australia's imprisonment rates are soaring'
The article analyses and attempts to account for Australia-wide trends that show increased rates of imprisonment at the same time as there has been an overall decline in crime.
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On October 1, 2015, The Age published a report titled 'Victoria's bail system is in disarray' which detailed the significant increase in those on bail breaching their bail conditions. Such breaches include the committing of further criminal offences.
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On March 26, 2015, The Age published a report titled 'Adrian Bayley: how the justice system left him free to stalk Melbourne's streets'
The report details the various grounds under which Ernest Bayley should neither have been granted bail nor parole at the time he raped and killed Jill Meagher in September 2012.
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