Submission to the Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System
The CIJ made a submission to the Victorian Government's independent cultural review of the adult custodial corrections system. It offers insights into the experiences and needs of people in custodial corrections, in particular people with disability and women in prisons.
The CIJ recently made a submission to the Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System (‘Cultural Review’), an independent review of the culture within adult prisons and correctional centres in Victoria. Drawing on the CIJ’s extensive work across the justice system, our submission offers insights into the experiences and needs of people in custodial corrections, in particular people with disability and women in prisons. Our submission speaks to the conditions of people in prison in relation to getting support, health and medical treatment, lack of access to housing, trauma and mental health and the lack of supports available in custody for people with disability and women.
As always, our submission draws upon our engagement with people with lived experience of adult custodial corrections and their direct experiences within Victoria prisons. We also highlight some of the areas of opportunity for cultural change and ways that the CIJ is working to engage lived experience and the justice workforce to improve and enable better conditions for people within Victorian prisons.