Corrective Services NSW

Corrective Services NSW

Badge
Agency overview
Formed	1 July 2009 (As Corrective Services)
Preceding Agency	Department of Corrective Services
Type	Department
Jurisdiction	New South Wales
Headquarters	Henry Deane Building, 20 Lee Street, Haymarket, Sydney
Employees	11,500 (2022)
Annual budget	A$2.2 billion (2022)
Minister responsible	Anoulack Chanthivong MP, Minister for Corrections
Agency executive	Leon Taylor, Acting Commissioner
Parent Agency	Department of Communities and Justice
Website	https://correctiveservices.dcj.nsw.gov.au/

Corrective Services New South Wales (CSNSW) is a division of the Department of Communities and Justice of the Government of New South Wales, Australia. CSNSW is responsible for the state's prisons and a range of programs for managing offenders in the community. The state has 36 prisons, 33 run by CSNSW and three privately operated. The agency traces its origins back to 1788, when New South Wales was founded as a penal colony.

The services provided include correctional centre custody of remand and sentenced inmates, parole, pre-sentence reports and advice to courts and releasing authorities, community service orders and other forms of community-based offender supervision. Offenders in custody and those supervised in the community are assessed for relevant interventions to reduce their risks of re-offending. Corrective Services NSW works in partnership with other government and non-government justice and human services agencies in regard to inmates in custody and offenders in the community.

The agency head office is located in the City of Sydney.^[1]