BackIn accordance with the Ombudsman Act 2001 the Office of the Queensland Ombudsman furnished a report on “Overcrowding at Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre: An investigation into the action taken by Queensland Corrective Services in response to overcrowding at Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre”.
In the preface of the report Queensland Ombudsman Phil Clarke states that concern about the overcrowding in Queensland’s prisons has been evident for some while and that – following an investigation by his office in 2013 – recommendations were given to the responsible authorities to take action.
However, the situation remained and has even worsened by 2016, when Ombudsman Clarke explains that: “the level of overcrowding – when compared to men’s prisons and coupled with the inadequate living conditions for prisoners – creates the circumstance where the administration is improperly discriminatory towards female prisoners.”
