Understanding the varying individual needs of inmates and tailoring services to accommodate these is at the heart of ensuring meaningful rehabilitation. With shifting ideals of what constitutes rehabilitation in today’s society, organisations are finding leveraging partnerships, leading practical initiatives, and providing effective care and security are paving the way for successful re-integration

As the year comes to an end and we enter into a new decade it is a time to reflect on the challenges of the past year and start preparing for the coming year. While there will always be new and unexpected challenges in the field of corrections, many of the issues previously experienced provide a hypothetical barometer of the issues corrections can expect to face in 2020 and beyond.

Below is an overview of those issues that are likely to continue as challenges in the field of corrections. Here we intentionally use the word “continue” because anyone with a background in corrections will recognise that most of these issues represent ongoing problems – just because we shift to a new year, or indeed a new decade, the problems neither reset nor erase themselves.  While the below isn’t an all inclusive list, it does represent some of the biggest challenges facing Australian correction, and reflects on both local and global trends in Future Justice & Corrections.