Justice reinvestment in Australia
Communities are taking the pen back.
Justice reinvestment moves money and decisions from prisons to the places young people actually live. 45 communities are doing it right now. This is the national picture, held lightly, owned locally.
01
The community decides
Local leadership names what safety looks like here: night patrols, mentoring, driver licensing, family support. Nothing is imported.
02
Money follows the decision
Spending shifts from responding to crime toward preventing it, and the trail is public: who was paid, on what basis, said by whom.
03
The record stays theirs
The community claims its page, corrects it, publishes what it stands behind, and can withdraw it. No administrator can do any of that for them.
The state of play · 24 August 2026
45
initiatives on the national register
curated by hand, not scraped
40
placed on the living map
5 listed without a map coordinate
98
impact figures held, with sources
16 confirmed by a person so far
0
records community-published yet
the double-locked gate is waiting
40 communities placed · 5 listed without a map coordinate
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Running justice reinvestment where you live?
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