OICS 2021-2022 Annual Report Released

13 Oct 2022

In 2021–22 the Office of the Inspector of Correctional Services (OICS) commenced work on the second Healthy Prison Review (HPR) of the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC).

OICS also conducted two complex and lengthy Critical Incident Reviews. The first involved an escape of a detainee from an AMC secure escort on 9 July 2021 and the second, tragically, the death in custody by hanging of a young detainee at AMC on 1 February 2022.

We received the ACT Government response to the inaugural Healthy Centre Review of Bimberi Youth Justice Centre in which the government agreed or agreed in principle to 26 of the 27 recommendations.

The reporting year also saw OICS designated by the ACT Government as a National Preventive Mechanism (NPM) under the UN Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture (OPCAT) for ACT adult and youth detention facilities. The OPCAT is a human rights treaty that Australia ratified that requires independent “preventive” monitoring of detention places as opposed to responding to complaints.

Read the full report here.