Recommendation 1
The Department must invest in and deliver more therapeutic programs.
Recommendation 2
The Department should increase Wooroloo’s transitional management capacity.
Recommendation 3
In the absence of the Good Beginnings program, Wooroloo must ensure that prisoners can keep in contact with their children.
Recommendation 4
Wooroloo must put strategies in place that increase the number of Aboriginal prisoners at desirable workplaces, and at high gratuity levels.
Recommendation 5
Revitalise recreation services at Wooroloo, and ensure that recreation officer positions are filled on a daily basis.
Recommendation 6
Prisoners must have better access to a professional counselling service.
Recommendation 7
The Department must ensure continuity of the full range of primary health care services for eligible prisoners at Wooroloo.
Recommendation 8
To improve relational security, Wooroloo management should require custodial officers to engage positively with prisoners more frequently.
Recommendation 9
Wooroloo should be funded for more MPCs, or be supported to devise alternative behaviour management strategies.
Recommendation 10
The Department should support Wooroloo farm to operate a replacement schedule for agricultural machinery and equipment.
Read Agency Response: Department of Justice response to Wooroloo recommendations