About to wrap up the 14th Reintegration Puzzle Conference - my first one - what an incredible gathering & sharing of experience & insight & passion for change! Thanks everyone for a fabulous 3 days of rich & generous exchange & discussion 🙏#RPCon2018

Tony Bull: “the prisoner today is the free man tomorrow - if you treat a man like dog, one day he’ll turn around and bite you” #RPCon2018

Greg Barns: we need to point out the fiscal profligacy of law and order politicking & prison expansion to both sides of politics! #RPCon2018

@keenan_mundine points out the transferable skills learnt through being imprisoned: being adaptable, networking, understanding others’ experience #RPCon2018

Tony Bull: “I’ve been rehabilitated for 8 years now & the justice system had nothing to do with it - that’s disgusting” #PrisonDoesntRehabilitate #RPCon2018

Tony Bull says of parole officers & government workers: “they aren’t allowed to care”... “there’s no compromise, they’ve got a rule book and you’ve gotta follow it” #RPCon2018

Tony Bull: Every prisoner forgets how they felt in prison the moment they walk out the door... everything you do in prison doesn’t count for much on the outside #RPCon2018

Tony Bull talks about his many experiences of parole: you’re always asked ‘what are you going to do?’, never asked ‘how are you going to do it?’ - much more important Q! #RPCon2018

Stuart Kinner: we can and should rethink parole to improve not just criminal justice outcomes but health outcomes too #RPCon2018

Stuart Kinner: parole is protective against injecting drug use & post-release death... #Parole should be supportive not punitive #RPCon2018

Stuart Kinner: #parole can improve #health of released prisoners, their children, families, communities and the wider community. #RPCon2018

Greg Barns: we’ve got to stop penalising people for breaching #parole for petty non-offences #RPCon2018

Greg Barns: Sweden’s use of electronic monitoring saving taxpayers $$$ - might have interesting implications for Tasmania? #RPCon2018

Looking fed to this panel: How does parole support reintegration in Tas? @DrHannahGraham Stuart Kinner, Tony Bull & Greg Barns #RPCon2018

Ruth McCausland: “school is not a safe place or a place for learning for the vast majority of Aboriginal children” in Walgett #RPCon2018

...5) outreach in the community;)
6) housing first #RPCon2018

CRC’s best practice principles supporting exprisoners w complex needs: 1) #reintegration beyond individual rehabilitation; 2) systemic #advocacy embedded in casework; 3) #throughcare ie prerelease engagement; 4) long-term relational support; 5)... #RPCon2018

#RPCon2018 #Ombudsman Deborah Glass giving us confidence that #OPCAT can actually prevent injustice and promote #rehabilitation in our prison system

Deborah Glass suggests using the language of public safety & ‘the public purse’ to argue for genuine criminal justice reform #RPCon2018

Wonderful to hear Vic Ombudsman Deborah Glass on the potential for #OPCAT to shine a light on injustices such as the use of #solitaryconfinement #RPCon2018

Deborah Glass: “I’m not neutral about social justice. I’m not neutral about human rights” Importance of ombudsman being independent but not neutral #RPCon2018

Deborah Glass: many good initiatives - eg diversion, expansion of the Torch Aboriginal art program - maybe keeping recidivism rate stable over last 2yrs? At least it hasn’t gone up! #RPCon2018

Deborah Glass: DPFC inspection found alarming use of restraint, use of force, routine strip searching #WomenInPrison #RPCon2018

Deborah Glass: inspection of DPFC found 14% of women said they participated in rehab activities while 59% of staff thought women were doing rehab: serious disparity! #RPCon2018

Closed environments - prisons, youth detention, secure mental health, preventative detention - #OPCAT compliance will require all will be open to inspection #RPCon2018

Deborah Glass: “OPCAT is important because it opens up our closed environments” i.e. to inspection #RPCon2018

Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass talking about Rehabilitation, #OPCAT & inspection of DPFC women’s prison in Vic #RPCon2018

@tscbartlett talking about primary career fathers in prison in Victoria - v little support for these men & their families #RPCon2018

Victim of road trauma talks about the opportunity to meet the man responsible for her brother’s death: “I thought what a dropkick, what a complete loser... but he was courageous, he was honest to the point of pain...he was not a bad man” #RPCon2018

Rob Hulls talking about how #RestorativeJustice processes meet victims’ needs #RPCon2018