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Mr O’Gorman said that Minister Gerber needs to front the media to indicate what steps are going to be taken to address the highly critical QAO Report especially in relation to the crying need for an injection of funding to ensure prisoners can do rehabilitation programs in a timely manner so as to reduce the high rate of return to jail by prisoners and the ever increasing load on the taxpayer of a ballooning Qld jail population.
Read MoreIn our submission no changes should be made to the rights of victims which undermine the rehabilitation of the prisoners. The only consequence of that would be to create more victims, which surely is not the intention of the review let alone the government.
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If the Parole Board is being described as broken for victims’ families it is even more broken for prisoners who have done all required rehabilitation programs but who languish in jail often for many months after their parole eligibility dates because of prisoners being unable to obtain parole accommodation.
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