The Human Rights Principles for ACT Correctional Centres

The Human Rights Principles for ACT Correctional Centres provides a clear set of principles about how detainees should be supported from their initial contact with corrections through to their release. Its aims to help improve management of detainees in the ACT.

These principals were launched by Minister for Corrections and Justice Health Shane Rattenbury on 30 January 2019. While the ACT’s Human Rights Act 2004 applies to everyone in the Territory, these formal principles clarify what that means for those in our adult correctional centres.

The principles reflect what detainees, the ACT Government and the broader ACT community should expect from our corrections system. These principles will also assist ACT Corrective Services to develop correctional centre policies and procedures that better support all detainees, including female, male, intersex and gender diverse, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, culturally and linguistically diverse, those with a disability and older detainees.

• Human Rights Principles for ACT Correctional Centres (PDF - 786KB)
• Human Rights Principles for ACT Correctional Centres - Information for Detainees
• Human Rights Principles for ACT Correctional Centres -Poster (PDF - 208KB)