The demand for correctional services continues to grow as increasing numbers
of offenders are held on remand, sentenced to custodial supervision, sentenced
to probation with community supervision or are on parole. New prisons have
been commissioned in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland and prisons are
planned or are being built in Tasmania, ACT and Northern Territory. In general,
correctional services is the responsibility of State and Territory governments
and there is a Department for Correctional Services in every State and Territory.
There are custodial centres in all capital cities and in many regional centres.
Community Corrections offices are in metropolitan and regional centres, based
on the concentrations of corrections clients. Correctional staff also travel
to remote and Indigenous communities to supervise and monitor the progress
of offenders in meeting their obligations.
 
Nationally, the Correctional Service employs approximately 30,000 staff and is experiencing skill shortages in the following areas:
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