Welcome to Community Justice Coalition

The purpose of the Coalition is:

To make the criminal justice system, not just punitive, but through greatly enhanced prisoner education and rehabilitation programs, educative and restorative
To ensure better results for the money spent
To create a fairer, safer community
To oppose privatisation of prisons

DV EPIDEMIC SURGES

NSW Government gives reassurance, but blocks solutions The Domestic Violence epidemic continues to rage. The Government points to increased enforcement activities as its primary solution, ...

Minister Fails DV Victims

NSW Prisons Minister blocks measures that can reduce DV. The scourge of Domestic Violence will not be reduced unless perpetrators’ attitudes and behaviours can be ...

Youth Justice Cruelty Exposed

In the most recent NSW Budget Estimates Hearing, the issue of children in detention without access to counselling and education while in their cells was ...

Media Release: Marching Against Violence While Ignoring the Solution

Media Release December 11, 2025 “NSW Ministers march to end domestic violence, yet continue to block the implementation of the very counselling services that would ...

MEDIA RELEASE: Eight Fingers and a Keyboard Short: Prisoners Locked Out of Learning

Media Release April 16, 2025 “‘No,’ said the Minister for Corrections when asked whether it’s a serious disadvantage for prisoners to be typing with ‘two ...

Youth Justice Inquiry Exposure

Report of Youth Justice Senate Inquiry The National Children’s Commissioner told the Youth Justice Senate Inquiry, “The most chilling thing was when the kids had ...