Reform of the High Risk Serious Offenders Act 2020 (WA)
Reform of the High Risk Serious Offenders Act 2020 (WA)
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Team: Pheonix Rogers (Team Leader), Elysse Ralph (Team Leader), Tamara Stojnic, Amelie Szczecinski, Joel Cronin and Ben Vines.
Partner Organisation: Justice Reform Initiative
Aim: The aim of the Project is to effect legislative reform of the HRSO Act, especially the provisions allowing the creation of continuing detention orders and supervision orders, to limit its scope for indefinitely detaining individuals after their prison sentence
Purpose: The Project is focused on legislative reform of the High Risk Serious Offenders Act 2020 (WA) (‘HRSO Act’) to limit its capacity to indefinitely detain individuals. The Project will explore opportunities for effective reform of the HRSO Act to lead to positive outcomes for justice-involved individuals.
Equipping community organisations to engage and support young people out of the criminal justice system
Equipping community organisations to engage and support young people out of the criminal justice system
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Team: Bianca Baptisa (Team Leader), Ana De Veyra, Valentia Lin, Ronan Petit, and Jessica Higgins
Partner Organisation: Hello Initiative.
Project Supervisor: Priscilla Gardner (Hello Initiative)
Project Mentor: Julian Sanders (Solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills) and Natalie Fretton (Solicitor at Herbert Smith Freehills).
Aim: The aim of this project is to conduct research and consultations to produce findings / materials that can be used to influence policy decisions which improve sector capacity to deliver safe, inclusive, and trauma-informed reintegrative pathways for young people in WA.
Purpose: the key objective of this project is to produce deliverables that assist HI’s early development of an exemplary program which improves WA organisations’ capacity to connect with the target cohort of at-risk young people engaged in the criminal justice system. Once piloted by HI, the exemplary program is to be shared amongst other relelvant community organisations.