The Network
The justice reinvestment movement, seeing itself on one map
A movement is easier to fund and harder to ignore once it can see its own shape. Here is every justice reinvestment site we have been able to place, grouped by the Country it serves, with the lead organisation named wherever the record holds one.
- Sites on the map
- 40
- Lead organisations
- 36
- States and territories
- 7
of 42 on record, with 2 national bodies off the map
These numbers are what the public record shows today, not the whole movement. Where a place or a lead organisation is missing, we say so and ask the network to fill it in.
Government & funder view
The case, read the way a department reads it
The same record, grouped by jurisdiction and set against the price of a cell. Every figure here carries its source on the site it came from. Where a number has not yet been validated against its source, we say so rather than show a blank.
- Validated against source
- 16
- Awaiting validation
- 117
- Sites on record
- 40
measured outcomes re-checked against their cited source, of 133 figures on record. The rest are context, process, projection or related-program figures, held out of this count by design.
sourced figures, not yet re-checked against source
on the map across 7 states and territories, plus 2 national bodies off the map (42 on record)
16 measured outcomes validated against source across 28 sites, with the rest of the record still to be checked. None has yet been confirmed by the communities themselves.
The benchmark every figure is read against
$1.3M to detain one child for one year
ROGS 2026, the national average. The question a funder or a parliament faces is not whether the community can be trusted with the money, but why the cell still gets it first. Per-site funding allocations are not yet published as public data, only national envelopes, so this view names the benchmark, not a fabricated per-site split.
Justice reinvestment sites by jurisdiction
- Western Australia9
- Northern Territory8
- New South Wales7
- Queensland7
- South Australia5
- Victoria2
- Australian Capital Territory2
- National2
Counts are sites on the public record, grouped by the jurisdiction that holds the youth-justice lever. Use the map below to read any one site, its programs, and its sourced figures in full.
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Search the network
Find a place, a program, a person
One search across every site. Type a town, a lead organisation, a program, a partner, or the name of someone leading the work, and the site it belongs to comes back.
What this becomes
From data to network
Profiles the community holds
Today each line is a record we hold. Next it becomes a profile the organisation owns and edits, where the community decides what the world may see. We can stage a page; they publish it. See the founding action-profiles for how that works.
Evidence beside detention costs
A profile carries what a program runs and what it costs, set against the price of detaining a child for a year. When the ledger sits in plain view, the question stops being whether to fund the community and starts being why we still fund the cell.
The law reform case
One site proves a model. Many sites, read together, become an argument a parliament cannot wave away. The map is how the movement makes that argument site by site, in its own words, with its own evidence.
The four founding profiles
Four communities are shaping the profile with us before anyone else is listed. Each is the editor of record for its own page.