Welcome to Just Reinvest NSW

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Too many Aboriginal children and young people are in our prisons. We are promoting justice reinvestment as the way forward.

Justice reinvestment offers a positive alternative. It reduces crime, builds community capacity, and saves taxpayer’s money. Evidence shows when justice reinvestment is implemented, children and young people have more opportunities and get better outcomes.

In NSW, over half the children in jail are Aboriginal. This costs $800 per child per day.

In 2014 NSW taxpayers spent an average of $293,200 on each child in custody, and costs are increasing.

Just Reinvest NSW is calling on the NSW government to implement justice reinvestment as a matter of urgency.

What is
Justice Reinvestment?

In Australia the prison system costs taxpayers $3.7 billion a year. We cannot afford to continue down this path. There’s a better way to invest our resources.

JR Calculator

Would justice reinvestment benefit your community? Find out how much is being spent on services and incarceration in your local area using the JR Calculator.