Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
2016-11-01 Daily Xml

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Home Detention

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:35): Supplementary: the opposition has been advised that eight convicted murderers have been placed on home detention; is that correct?

The Hon. P. MALINAUSKAS (Minister for Police, Minister for Correctional Services, Minister for Emergency Services, Minister for Road Safety) (14:35): My advice, as of 24 October 2016, is that 19 offenders have commenced court-ordered home detention. I haven't received any advice that any of those 19 people are murderers. That information that you have just disclosed or suggested, I am happy to check up on that and come back. My advice is, as it stands, there are 19 offenders who are currently on court-ordered home detention. For those people who are on back-end home detention, like I said, there is a ministerial directive in place which expressly prohibits the Department for Correctional Services from releasing people who have been convicted of murder on back-end home detention.