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New South Wales prisoners could face some of the harshest penalties in the country for trivial infractions such as “looking untidy” or “eating food in a cell”, as the government flouts advice and attempts to lower the burden of proof for inmate misconduct.
If adopted, the [new] legislation would mean offences committed by inmates while inside prison only need to be proved to the civil standard of the “balance of probabilities”, rather than the current criminal threshold of “beyond reasonable doubt”.
The penalties under the lower standard of proof would remain the same as before for all offences, and can range from a caution to withdrawal of privileges for up to 56 days.
[A] report... released by the ombudsman in August 2024, examined more than 56,000 offences from 2018, finding that one in three charges laid against inmates during disciplinary proceedings were incorrect.
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