New sentencing laws will be enforced in NSW to drive down reoffenders and ensure community safety. 

Stronger Intensive Correction Orders will replace suspended sentences and include supervision by Community Correction Officers through home detention, electronic monitoring, curfews, and community service work. 

This has been proven to reduce reoffending and help rehabilitation. 

However, these orders will not be available for serious offences such as murder, manslaughter, sexual assault, any sexual offences against a child, an offence involving the discharge of a firearm, and terrorism offences. 

Attorney General Mark Speakman said the stronger sentencing laws will bring changes to the criminal justice administration from the time an offender is charged, until the end of their sentence. 

“The early appropriate guilty plea scheme is already encouraging offenders to own up to their crimes earlier, helping victims get on with their lives and police to get back to fighting crime. Reforms to parole which make community safety paramount are ensuring more offenders access more effective rehabilitation,” Mr Speakman said. 

“The government is also protecting the community through the High Risk Offender Scheme which keeps the most dangerous sex and violent offenders behind bars or under close supervision if they pose an unacceptable risk after completing their sentence,” he added. 

In addition, the change will also include a new legal presumption that domestic violence offenders will receive a prison term or a supervised community-based sentence. 

This is part of the NSW Government’s $330 million strategy to reduce reoffending, inclusive of additional 200 Community Correction staff. 

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