Context baselineAwaiting confirmation2017
$1.5 million
Average annual cost to incarcerate 10-17 year olds from Cherbourg
“The average cost per annum to incarcerate 10-17 year olds from Cherbourg is calculated at $1.5 million.”
View the source →Cherbourg, QLD
Cherbourg Wellbeing Indigenous Corporation, based in Cherbourg, Queensland, is one of nine First Nations organisations selected in February 2024 to deliver a community-led justice reinvestment initiative under the Albanese Government's federal package.
Impact on the record
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$1.5 million
Average annual cost to incarcerate 10-17 year olds from Cherbourg
“The average cost per annum to incarcerate 10-17 year olds from Cherbourg is calculated at $1.5 million.”
View the source →nearly three quarters of community members
Community support for introducing justice reinvestment in Cherbourg (2017 consultation)
“A community consultation report found that nearly three quarters of community members indicated support for introduction of justice reinvestment in Cherbourg, with the model's appeal centered on its focus on improving the lives of younger community members and the benefit it would bring to the community as a whole.”
View the source →The ledger in plain view
Funding on record (lead organisation)
$658,305
Cost of detaining one child for a year
$1,300,000
ROGS 2026 national average
Equivalent child-years of detention
0.51
This is funding recorded against the lead organisation, not the site-specific federal allocation, which governments publish only as national envelopes. The comparison sets what a community receives against the price of a single cell, so the question moves from whether to fund the community to why we still fund the cell.
What runs here
Cherbourg Justice Reinvestment Project
First Nations-led justice reinvestment project funded under National Justice Reinvestment Program
The lead organisation also supports
Cherbourg Wellbeing Indigenous Corporation
Cherbourg Wellbeing Indigenous Corporation provides cultural support and wellbeing services to Indigenous youth and families in the Cherbourg community.
The people
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The arc
2017
Justice reinvestment project initiated in Cherbourg in April 2017 by the Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General (Youth Justice) — described as the first attempt to implement all four formal stages of justice reinvestment in Queensland, targeting incarceration rates of young Indigenous people aged 10-25.
Source →2017
Queensland DJAG and Youth Justice consulted community members, organisations and stakeholders in Cherbourg on whether and how justice reinvestment could be implemented locally, via interviews, surveys and community forums; Cherbourg Local Council endorsed the consultant's final report.
Source →2024
Cherbourg Wellbeing Indigenous Corporation named as one of nine organisations selected to deliver justice reinvestment initiatives under the Albanese Government's First Nations justice package (announced 1-2 February 2024).
Source →In the record
Ministers' Media Centre (Australian Government) · 2024-02-01
Mirage News · 2024-02-02
Attorney-General's Department (Australian Government) · 2024-09-30
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