The Justice Reinvestment Network Australia Limited is a Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community controlled organisation, governed by a 100% Aboriginal governing Board.

The Justice Reinvestment Network Australia (JRNA) is the community-controlled representative national body of communities working in justice reinvestment (JR). We speak on the authority and experiences of those communities, including our own communities, leading work on the ground and from the grassroots level.  JRNA is the voice for JR at the national level with the collective expertise from established JR sites, emerging JR sites, research and academic expertise, and advocacy. This is a movement that came from grassroots communities and continues to be held and led by our communities.

This work is inherited from our grandparents and ancestors. Our communities continue to deal with the unfinished business that is the continuing legacy of colonisation. One of those impacts is the over representation across the justice system. Our presence here is to work towards ending incarceration and replacing this with healing, wellbeing, empowerment, strengthening our young people and creating better futures for our communities. Our lived experience and success stories must be shared and recognised without fear of discrimination or judgement.

We have formed JRNA with community control because we know what has always been known by our communities: Community voice, self-determination and community responsibility are at the heart of leading and solving the justice challenges. The collective power in our communities across the country working together, building connections and sharing knowledge is our way, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and the pathway to a better future.

In this journey we must hold governments, the mainstream and ourselves accountable, in keeping with what is true JR. To do this we seek to work in strong partnerships, which respect and centre our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ways of knowing, being and doing. In reclaiming and centring our way, we will together achieve better outcomes for our communities.