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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 09 Hansard (Wednesday, 18 August 2004) . . Page.. 3862 ..

restorative justice as a philosophy not just as a program on the side. The corrections legislation includes the following objects:

(a) providing for the secure and safe imprisonment, care, treatment, health management and rehabilitation of offenders;

(b) reducing the repetition of criminal and other antisocial behaviour by offenders.

The bill then sets out the means of achieving those objects as follows:

338 Achieving the objects

(1) The objects of the corrections legislation are to be achieved by—

(a) enabling courts to formulate sentences for offenders using a range of stated penalty options in each sentence that—

(i) provide incentives and opportunities for offenders to progress through a number of custodial and other arrangements stated in the sentence; and

(ii) can be reviewed by the sentence administration board; and

(b) enabling the use of a case management approach to rehabilitation that—

(iii) has regard to the needs of the offenders and the community; and

(iv) involves other government agencies and the community; and

(c) enabling the provision of rehabilitation programs that—

(v) combine with broader based community programs; and

(vi) recognise the distinct needs of men and women, offenders of different ages, and cultural, ethnic and other disadvantaged groups; and

(vii) involve, as appropriate, family and other support mechanisms; and

(d) establishing the framework for the delivery of custodial and other correctional programs; and

(e) ensuring the application of the highest standards of competency, professionalism and ethical behaviour in corrections management in the ACT; and

(f) establishing a set of institutional, management and operational arrangements to achieve the objects in accordance with the principles of transparency and accountability.

(2) Subsection (1) does not limit how the objects of this Act or the related corrections legislation may be achieved.

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