Reports and Submissions

This submission was published in June 2024. This submission was written by the JR NSW backbone team in Moree, with support from Just Reinvest NSW Supporting Body.

This submission was written by Just Reinvest NSW and published in May 2021

Published in September 2020. This submission was written by Just Reinvest NSW.

This submission was written by Just Reinvest NSW in February 2017, and speaks to the social and economic costs of incarceration being unacceptable there being a clear and urgent need for a new approach to the delivery of diversionary programs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in NSW.

This submission was written by Just Reinvest NSW in April 2016, and focuses on justice reinvestment as a framework to redirect funding away from prison and into treatment and rehabilitation services for Aboriginal people with cognitive and psychiatric impairment.

This submission was written by Just Reinvest NSW in February 2016, and argues justice reinvestment as a framework that would strengthen economic development in NSW Aboriginal communities that experience high levels of incarceration and high rates of recidivism.

This submission was written by Just Reinvest NSW and published in August 2020, and is limited to a discussion on how the Bail Act and its implementation by bail authorities impacts on Aboriginal people in NSW, with a focus on its impact on young Aboriginal people – and what amendments to the Bail Act and its implementation should be considered.

This submission to a Senate Inquiry was written by Just Reinvest NSW in 2013, responding to the value of a justice reinvestment approach to criminal justice in Australia.

This report edited by Jill Guthrie is an edited transcript of proceedings of a one-day forum convened in 2012 by the National Centre for Indigenous Studies (NCIS) at The Australian National University, posing the questions, Is Justice Reinvestment needed in Australia?, What does Justice Reinvestment mean in practical terms?, and Should Australia explore Justice Reinvestment as a policy option? Read the report.

Published in 1991, this inquiry was started in response to public concerns about the levels of Aboriginal deaths in custody. Read more about their recommendations through the link.