About Correctional Services

Northern Territory Correctional Services, in partnership with the community, is committed to delivering a correctional service that contributes to individual and community safety by:

  • Ensuring the effective management of prisoners and juvenile detainees during their period of imprisonment or detention and support the reduction of the likelihood of their re-offending through the provision of effective rehabilitation and reintegration programs and services
  • Ensuring the provision of assessment, monitoring and supervision services to community based adult and juvenile offenders in line with orders as directed by the courts and the parole board
  • Ensuring that a range of rehabilitation and reparation programs are available to sentenced prisoners and community based offenders which encourage them to become socially responsible members of the community; and
  • Developing, managing and operating systems that are effective in achieving their objectives, competitive in performance and cost, responsive to changing needs and accountable for results.