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Justice Solutions tour blog - Ullersmo Youth Unit, Norway
- 21 June 2017
As part of our ongoing blog series highlighting the learnings of our Justice Solutions tour, Jesuit Social Services’ CEO JULIE EDWARDS writes about the strong social infrastructure that has resulted in Norway having an extremely low youth incarceration rate. Jesuit Social Services CEO, Julie Edwards, outside the Ullersmo Youth Unit in Norway. Sally Parnell, Executive…
Justice Solutions tour blog - Hameln Youth Justice Facility, Germany
- 20 June 2017
As part of our ongoing blog series highlighting the learnings of our Justice Solutions tour, Jesuit Social Services’ CEO JULIE EDWARDS reflects on her visit to the Hameln Youth Justice Facility in Germany, where efforts are focused on the successful reintegration of young people back into the community. Hameln Youth Centre, Germany. Image credit: Jugendanstalt…
Justice Solutions tour blog - Neustrelitz Prison, Germany
- 19 June 2017
As part of our ongoing blog series highlighting the learnings of our Justice Solutions tour, Jesuit Social Services’ CEO JULIE EDWARDS writes about her experiences in Germany, where youth justice systems prioritise education, rehabilitation and resettlement. Neustrelitz Youth Centre in Germany, where “prison is viewed as a last resort”. Image credit: Jugendanstalt Neustrelitz The general…
Justice Solutions tour blog - Baltimore and Washington DC
- 19 June 2017
As part of our ongoing blog series highlighting the learnings of our Justice Solutions tour, Jesuit Social Services’ Executive Director of Advocacy and Strategic Communications CATHERINE NEVILLE writes about the importance of advocacy in striving for humane youth justice systems. Nate Balis and Liane Rozzell from the Annie E Casey Foundation. Jesuit Social Services’ approach…
Justice Solutions tour blog - Missouri
- 13 June 2017
In the first of our series of blogs throughout our Justice Solutions tour, Jesuit Social Services’ Executive Director of Advocacy and Strategic Communications CATHERINE NEVILLE writes about her experiences exploring Missouri’s innovative youth detention model. While the United States’ approach to incarceration differs from state to state, some parts of the USA are leading the…
Upholding the rights of children and young people in youth justice
- 16 May 2017
Policy team volunteer JEMIMA HOFFMAN writes about the denial of rights of children and young people in the youth justice system, drawing on the work of experts who participated in our recent National Justice Symposium. Abuse is not foreign to youth justice in Australia. But can our failures be rectified with reforms, or are they endemic…
More than the sum of their crimes: listening to the voices of young people
- 2 May 2017
Policy team volunteer DARCY TILBROOK advocates for a more rounded view of young offenders. He draws on Jesuit Social Services’ recent conversation about how politics, media and public opinion shape youth justice in Australia. How young offenders are viewed by society is heavily influenced by the media. The language used and the stories told often…
Investments into addressing youth remand numbers will ease pressure on system
- 24 April 2017
As public concern has risen over community safety in Victoria, so too has the number of young people held on remand in the state. In late 2016, before an incident at Parkville Youth Detention Centre that resulted in part of the facility being shut down and a number of young people being transferred to the…
Balancing youth justice in Australia
- 21 March 2017
Throughout 2016 and into 2017 a number of high-profile events across Australia have focused the spotlight on young people, crime and community safety. In the Northern Territory, the revelation of horrific conditions and abuse of young people at the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre led to the establishment of the Royal Commission into the Protection…
International Women's Day: we must reverse the trajectory of female incarceration rates
- 7 March 2017
As we celebrate International Women’s Day this year, let us pause to remember the women at the margins of society, those who remain out of sight and out of mind. Like those in prison. As of February this year, there were just over 500 females in Victorian prisons. The Victorian female imprisonment rate increased 44.7 per cent…

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