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Legislative Council - Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)
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Prison Communication

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:24): Supplementary: what work is Corrections doing with perpetrators to work with them while in prison to change those behaviours?

The Hon. E.S. BOURKE (Minister for Emergency Services and Correctional Services, Minister for Autism, Minister for Recreation, Sport and Racing) (15:24): I understand, during the time that I have been in this role, that learning from victims has been a really crucial part of what we could be doing differently. When we have people in the care of custody we should be thinking not only about their rehabilitation but also the opportunities and learning from the experiences and how we communicate with victims.

This is something I want to focus on more and learn more about how we can make those changes, because I think what we want as a community is to make sure that when we have people come into our prison system that when they leave they have new skills and have been rehabilitated to be better members of our community because we do not want new victims created when they do come out.

As a government, we are keen, obviously, to think about what we can do differently. We have invested heavily already in rehabilitation programs like Work Ready, Release Ready but we can never forget the story of the victims as well. I am most happy to take on any advice from other people as well, what they have heard and what we could be doing differently.

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