PRISONER REHABILITATION PROGRAMS

246 The Hon. D.G.E. HOOD (25 March 2009). Can the Minister for Correctional Services advise how many FTE staff were employed for 2008 solely to deliver rehabilitation programs to prisoners within all of South Australia's correctional facilities?

The Hon. G.E. GAGO (Minister for State/Local Government Relations, Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Consumer Affairs, Minister for Government Enterprises, Minister Assisting the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Energy): The Minister for Correctional Services is advised:

Generally, staff with responsibility in the critical area of prisoner management provide a wide range of services.

There is a number of staff whose role includes a significant rehabilitation component. In 2008, these included:

20 FTE staff who in addition to delivering rehabilitation programs to prisoners also provided counselling and other intervention services throughout the prison system including intervention management roles at Mobilong, Pt Augusta, Yatala, and the Adelaide Women's prisons;

14 Rehabilitation Programs Branch staff who delivered the Violence Prevention Program, Sexual Behaviours Clinic, Sex Offenders Maintenance Program and Violent Offenders Maintenance Program across Custodial Services and Community Corrections. The staff also undertook assessments and one-on-one intervention services with offenders in the areas of violence prevention and sexual offending;

6 FTE staff in the Psychology Services Unit who conducted the Moderate Intensity Alcohol and Drugs Program across Custodial and Community Corrections and also provided both programs and one-on-one psychological intervention to prisoners and offenders;

13.4 FTE staff employed across the State delivering psychological services;

10 Aboriginal Liaison Officers who provided support roles for Aboriginal prisoners across the prison system; and

9 FTE Education Coordinators who were employed in prisons across the State, with each prison also funded to recruit hourly paid instructors to provide specialist education activities, as required.”