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Prisons are big business in Australia. Companies not only run entire prisons but provide many of the services. But what does the research say about the impact?
The Supreme Court may soon hear a case on data-driven criminal sentencing. Research suggests that algorithms are not as good as we think they are at making these decisions.
Repealing a legal provision that excludes people in prison or jail from Medicaid could improve access to treatment, save state and local governments money and reduce recidivism.
To reduce female recidivism rates, we need to address inmates' histories of trauma and abuse.
Reducing stubbornly high levels of violence can be achieved if there is a focus on ensuring that children are not exposed to violence or toxic stress at home.
Case management from nurses combined with peer coaching from ex-offenders helps recently released parolees avoid the behavior that got them locked up in the first place.
Data-driven algorithms drive decision-making in ways that touch our economic, social and civic lives. But they contain inherent biases and assumptions that are too often invisible to the public.
Closing Victorian jails is an opportunity to create prisons that benefit inmates – and society.
Even though mental illness is consistently associated with criminal behavior, these conditions are largely undertreated in our prison system.
Two-thirds of released prisoners in the US are arrested again within three years. Here's how we could change that.
President Obama wants to reopen access to Pell grants to prisoners. Studies show when men and women enroll in college programs, they are less likely to return to prison.
Women coming out of jail require forms of assistance that are not simply directed at technologies for prevention or elimination of recidivism, but rather that are focused on health and well-being.
The success of probation programmes based on swift and certain sanctions has led to more than 160 such schemes operating in the US. Australia should consider whether the model might work here too.
Sentencing policy is a mixed bag of approaches: punishment, deterrence, protection and rehabilitation. The system will remain costly and ineffective until punitive instincts give way to a more rational approach.
We simply don't know how many prisoners are released each year, nor their demographic characteristics. As a result, we cannot tailor services that would reduce ex-prisoners' risks of re-offending.
Imprisonment rates in Tasmania have steadily declined over the past decade -- the only state or territory where this has happened. That is a result of progressive and effective corrections policies.
The Northern Territory stands out for having one of the highest imprisonment rates in the world - much higher even than in the US - and it's hard to argue that this does the community much good.
The ACT's first prison opened in 2009 with lofty ideals, but rising prisoner numbers and high rates of re-imprisonment are presenting a severe test of the capital's reformist corrections agenda.
Queensland's rates of imprisonment had been falling, but have undergone a sharp reversal - much of it driven by the nation's highest rates of return by prisoners released into the community.
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Professor, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
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Professor and Head, School of Law and Justice, University of Canberra
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Director - Centre for Social Impact
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Professor and Head, Rural Health School, La Trobe University
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Professor of Paediatrics & Child Health and Director of the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit, University of Sydney
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Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, University of Sydney
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Research Professor in Criminology, University of Brighton
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Epidemiologist, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Criminology, University of Tasmania
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Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Queensland
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PhD Researcher, Menzies School of Health Research
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Academic Director/ Clinical Ethicist, Children’s Bioethics Centre at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and Associate Professor in Health Ethics at the Centre for Health and Society, University of Melbourne
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PhD scholar and Lecturer and Tutor in Critical and Cultural Studies, City Campus., Macquarie University
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Distinguished Fellow, Bard Prison Initiative and Levy Institute Research Professor, Bard College
