ACT reports and information

Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) - adult correctional centre

• Alexander Maconochie Centre Functional Brief (2005), ACT Department of Justice & Community Safety [PDF, 1.2 MB]
• ACT Corrective Services Discipline Adjudications (2008), ACT Ombudsman [PDF, 965.4 KB]
• Healthy or harmful? Mental health and the operational regime of the new ACT prison (2008), ACT Community Coalition on Corrections [PDF, 313.7 KB]
• Inquiry into the delay in the commencement of operations at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (2009), ACT Standing Committee on Justice & Community Safety [PDF, 488.9 KB]
• Independent Review of Operations at the Alexander Maconochie Centre ACT Corrective Services (2011), Knowledge Consulting Pty Ltd [PDF, 2.8 MB]
• Review ACTCS Governance including in relation to Drug Testing at the AMC (2011), Knowledge Consulting Pty Ltd [PDF, 564.4 KB]
• External component of the evaluation of drug policies and services and their subsequent effects on prisoners and staff within the Alexander Maconochie Centre (2011), Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute [PDF, 1.3 MB]
• External component of the evaluation of drug policies and services and their subsequent effects on prisoners and staff within the Alexander Maconochie Centre (2011), ACT Government Response [PDF, 752.6 KB]
• The road to the ACT’s first prison (the Alexander Maconochie Centre) was paved with rehabilitative intentions (2012), Mackay, A, Canberra Law Review (2012)11(1) [PDF, 338.8 KB]
• Human Rights Audit on the Conditions of Detention of Women at the Alexander Maconochie Centre - A Report by the ACT Human Rights and Discrimination Commissioner (2014) [PDF, 2.0 MB]
• The Rehabilitation of Male Detainees at The Alexander Maconochie Centre (2015), ACT Auditor-General [PDF, 2.3 MB]
• The ACT Prison: Human Rights Rhetoric Versus Crowded and Bored (2015), Bartels, L. [PDF, 112.7 KB]
• Extended Throughcare Pilot program in the ACT (2016), Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at UNSW Australia, in partnership with Époque Consulting [PDF, 2.9 MB]
• Moss Report (2016), “So Much Sadness in our Lives” - Independent Inquiry into the Treatment in Custody of Steven Freeman [PDF, 673.7 KB]
• ACT Detainee Health and Wellbeing Survey 2016 Summary Results, Young J.T., van Dooren, K., Borschmann R., & Kinner S.A. (2017), ACT Government, Canberra, ACT. [PDF, 585.3 KB]
• Moss Review Implementation – Ministerial Statement (2018), ACT Minister for Corrections [PDF, 116.8 KB]
• Conclusions reached in the Moss Report- extract prepared by the Office of the ACT Inspector of Correctional Services (2018) [PDF, 289.6 KB]
• Review of the Opioid Replacement Treatment Program at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (2018), ACT Health Services Commissioner [PDF, 517.1 KB]
• Design consultancy services for the Alexander Maconochie Centre Transitional Release Centre expansion (2019), ACT government [PDF, 581.0 KB]
• ACT Director of Public Prosecutions discusses the Alexander Maconochie Centre (2019), ACT Bar Association Bulletin, February 2019 [PDF, 28.8 KB]
• Alexander Maconochie Reintegration Centre (AMRC) Executive Summary (2019), ACT Justice & Community Safety Directorate [PDF, 391.2 KB]
• Ministerial Statement: Government response to report of a review of a correctional Service by the ACT Inspector of Correctional Services: The Care and Management of Remandees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre, The Hon Shane Rattenbury MLA, Minister for C [PDF, 216.4 KB]
• Government response to the report of a review of a correctional service by the ACT Inspector of Correctional Services: The Care and Management of Remandees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre, The Hon Shane Rattenbury MLA, Minister for Corrections and Just [PDF, 278.0 KB]
• Parole processes at the Alexander Maconochie Centre: Investigation into the administration of parole by ACT Corrective Services (2020), ACT Ombudsman [PDF, 1.3 MB]
• ACT Auditor General's Report - Management of Detainee Mental Health Services in the Alexander Maconochie Centre [PDF, 1.2 MB]

Bimberi Youth Justice Centre

• The ACT Youth Justice System (2011): A Report to the ACT Legislative Assembly by the ACT Human Rights Commission [PDF, 10.5 MB]
• A young person’s guide to Bimberi Youth Justice Centre (nd), Community Services Directorate, ACT Government, Canberra [PDF, 1.4 MB]
• Charter of Rights for Young People in Bimberi Youth Justice Centre (nd), Community Services Directorate, ACT Government, Canberra [PDF, 845.3 KB]
• Commission initiated review of allegations regarding Bimberi Youth Justice Centre: Report of the ACT Disability and Community Services Commissioner and ACT Human Rights Commissioner (2019) [PDF, 2.6 MB]

Other ACT justice sector reports and materials

• Lost in transition: Exploring young people’s experiences of transition from youth detention in the ACT (2008), Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University, Canberra [PDF, 884.4 KB]
• Inquiry Into Sentencing (2015), ACT Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety [PDF, 2.1 MB]
• ACT Criminal Justice Statistical Profile (2017), ACT Justice & Community Safety Directorate [PDF, 6.2 MB]
• Recognition and implementation of obligations under the Human Rights Act 2004 (2019), ACT Auditor-General, Canberra [PDF, 1.2 MB]
• Court Transport Unit Vehicle- Romeo 5 (2021), ACT Auditor-General [PDF, 1.2 MB]
• OICS AMC and CTU Reports Index.pdf [PDF, 632.8 KB]
• ACT Human Rights Commission - INVESTIGATION INTO THE MECHANICAL RESTRAINT OF A PRISON DETAINEE WHILE BEING TREATED IN A MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY [PDF, 339.0 KB]