H&I Prison Roster Group Conscience 17/04/2021

Women’s Prison Roster Group Conscience (online) Minutes – 17/04/2021

Attendees: Meredith (chair), Ally (minutes), Fran, Yvonne

Apologies: Syrah

Non-Apologies:

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Correctional Facility Reports:

Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre:

• 21 women attended, 6 newcomers. Secure and residential worked well together and talked on death and forgiveness.
• Form 27A can now be submitted by email to the institution. Fran spoke to Mark Evans on the way out and asked why the girls from NA applying to do H&I have to get their ID’s signed by a JP. Mark stated he did not know. Fran said she will enquire further about that to see if ID can be sent without a signature from a JP.

Helena Jones Centre:

• No meetings for the past five weeks due to lockdown.
• Ally will email to confirm with Megan the week before 26/4/2021.

Gatton:

• Form 27A can now be submitted by email to the institution.
• Low on facilitator numbers.
• Have asked other women on the roster to assist on occasion and will reach out through the H&I workshop on the 18/4/2021.
• No meetings for the past five weeks due to lockdown.

Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre

Helena Jones Centre

Southern Queensland Correctional Centre

New Business

• Clean time requirement- the group agreed to change the minimum clean time requirement from 6 months to 12 months.
• Group Conscience Decision making- where the group are unable to reach a consensus the group conscience will apply majority rules.