Jesuit Social Services

Australia’s illicit drug problem: Challenges and opportunities for law enforcement
- 31 January 2023
In January 2023, Jesuit Social Services provided a submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Law Enforcement’s Inquiry into the challenges and opportunities for law enforcement in addressing Australia’s illicit drug problem. We emphasise the importance of a health-focused,...
Reforming sentence deferrals in Victoria submission
- 10 January 2023
In December 2022, Jesuit Social Services provided a submission to the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council’s consultation on sentence deferrals. We believe that deferring a person’s sentence, when appropriate, to give them a chance to engage in rehabilitation and restorative processes can play...
#JusticeSolutions
- 19 December 2022
As prison populations grow across Australia, governments grapple with the question of how to reduce crime, improve community safety, and provide people who have offended with the support they need to be accountable to their actions and reorient their lives. ...
Submission to the Adjourned Undertakings Consultation
- 17 October 2022
Jesuit Social Services believes the primary goal of any effective and humane criminal justice system is to ensure policy, legislation and budgetary decisions are all centred on prevention and early intervention. ...
Submission to the Northern Territory's Consultation on Reform to the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility
- 26 September 2022
Jesuit Social Services was pleased to provide feedback on the Northern Territory Government’s consultation to increase the minimum age of criminal responsibility – a landmark reform that will be life-changing for some of the Territory’s most vulnerable children. ...
Submission to Victoria's inquiry into children affected by parental incarceration
- 18 May 2022
We know that when a person goes to prison their entire community and family, including children, are impacted. Limiting people’s involvement with the justice system by ensuring prison is reserved only as an option of last resort, and keeping families connected is the best way to prevent this harm...
Federal Election 2022 platform – A blueprint for a just recovery
- 21 April 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many pre-existing social and economic issues in Australia to the fore, from housing stress, to poverty, family violence, and insecure employment. As an organisation working with some of the most disadvantaged members of the community, we have witnessed firsthand the disproportionate impact of this crisis on already marginalised people and communities.
Prisons, climate and a just transition
- 19 January 2022
Australia, like many other countries, is seeing the damaging impact of climate change on communities and ecosystems. In the face of these worsening climate change impacts, marginalised people and communities are most at risk, including people in prison. In December 2019, when bushfires burned close...
Submission to the Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System
- 13 December 2021
Jesuit Social Services was pleased to contribute a response to the Cultural Review of the Adult Custodial Corrections System. ...
Submission to the Inquiry into Victoria’s Criminal Justice System
- 23 September 2021
COVID-19 has shown that alternative ways of operating the justice system are possible, and that there is an opportunity to ‘build back better’ with a socially and environmentally just system that is driven by evidence and best practice. ...

Policy submissions

2023 Annual Dinner