Finding stable housing is one of the biggest challenges facing prison leavers. Access to public housing has been found to flatten the curve on rates of recidivism.
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With 12,707 adults incarcerated in the NSW
prison system last September, this state continues to be the
greatest incarcerator in the country.
Successive state governments of both persuasions, however,
haven t seen this as an opportunity to invest elsewhere. Rather
channelling funds into this state s correctional facilities has
become a favoured pastime for parliamentarians.
The Baird government announced a $3.8 billion four year funding package in
2016 to increase the capacity of this state s correctional
facilities by 7,000 beds. Prisons were expanded, new facilities
were built, while others were repurposed.