Act Corrective Services - Head Office
Government in Canberra

We also provide safe, kind and secure management of offenders and detainees. Cottages (including detention for women). The unit also provides advice to Courts and releasing authorities on the background, attitudes and behaviors of offenders subject to Court Orders. The Unit aims to diminish re offending by using empirically safe risk assessment tools to identify criminogenic risk factors. It then tailors a rehabilitation plan to address these factors, and uses a brokerage case management approach to bear these services. It provides secretariat encourage to the Sentence istration Board (AB). It coordinates registers and transfers of parole and community based orders. The unit holds sentencing records and manages the administration of sentences for sentences of imprisonment where a non parole period is set. A major focus of the unit is on accessible liaison with other jurisdictions, particularly MSW, in fulfilling its responsibilities.

A cottage style accommodation facility at the Alexander Maconochie center that houses and provides offenders with a transitional release security classification an opportunity to thrive life skills and participate in external employment, educational and rehabilitative programs. Should the board decide to free an offender they are released to parole under sure conditions. Succeeding the arrest, prosecution and sentencing of an offender, victims may wish to remain to take information about an offender who is serving a sentence of imprisonment, is under the supervision of ACT Corrective Services or who is to be considered for free to parole or license. They are also given the opportunity to make a submission to the Sentence Planning Group ardor the Sentence istration Board about any application for unsupervised outer leave, free to parole or license by an offender. Some requirements of supervision can include: The AC offers rehabilitative treatment and concern for prisoners serving a custodial sentence who have alcohol and other drug dependencies. The CEO program’s main area of operation is to produce outer employment upon release. This allows new participants to unite the program at any time throughout the year. The Cognitive Self Change Program is delivered in a rolling and open group format with fresh participants joining the program at any stage of their detention and exiting the program once they have completed each step in the program. The third stage of the Mark System was group therapy. If an offender is convicted or found guilty by a court of an offense against a territory or commonwealth law that is punishable by imprisonment, since the offender was sentenced to serve sporadic detention, the Board must cancel the offender's intermittent detention order. Behind the Board conducts the hearing it is needed to either make a parole order for the offender or refuse to make a parole order for the offender. This Unit conducts a number of programs designed to assist offenders address their offending behavior. The supervisory functions are in respect to the board’s responsibilities in relation to parole, periodic detention and free on license. Consider the release of sentenced offenders, for whom a court has set a non parole period, on parole. It also approves and reviews a prisoner’s rehabilitation plan and plausible participation in the Alexander Maconochie center transitional release program. Victims who have been placed on the ACT Victims Register are invited to make a submission to the Sentence Planning Group when an offender is being considered for a transitional release security classification and placement in the transitional release community. Offenders are qualified to participate in unsupervised external exit programs, such as work release or education leave, and access personal promote services during their time in the transitional free community. After considering a range of issues, including potential risks to the community, the Sentence Planning Group must then decide whether the offender is suitable for transitional release. Its purpose is to inform the Sentence Planning Group of the probable effect the offender’s feasible unescorted depart in the community may have on the victim or their family. Its purpose is to inform the Board of the likely effect the release of an offender may have on the victim or their family. (Parole only) In the event that the Board decides to free the offender, any conditions you would like placed on his or her parole order. The Board will not allow the offender or any other person to see a submission if it considers that, in generous it to that person, it could pose a substantial risk to a victim or another person’s safety. A victim can register at any time during the period the offender is serving a sentence for the offense relating to the victim.