- Crisafulli Government is delivering Circuit Breaker Sentencing, a new court-ordered intensive rehabilitation program to drive down youth crime.
- Circuit Breaker Sentencing will be the last stop before detention for youth offenders, for up to six-months and delivered in remote locations, away from populated areas
- Legislation introduced into Parliament today delivers on a key Crisafulli Government election commitment, as part of plan to make Queensland safer.
- Crisafulli Government is making Queensland safer by restoring safety where you live, turning the tide on Labor's Youth Crime Crisis.
The Crisafulli Government is delivering on a key election commitment and restoring safety where you live, with a Bill introduced into Parliament today for a new court ordered rehabilitation program for repeat youth offenders.
Circuit Breaker Sentencing delivers on a key election commitment and will be the first of its kind intensive rehabilitation program in Australia, giving courts a powerful new tool to deal with repeat youth offenders.
Circuit Breaker Sentencing is a key pillar in the Crisafulli Government's plan to make Queensland safer after a decade of Labor's weak-on-crime approach opened the door for a cohort of serious youth criminals to terrorise communities.
The Youth Justice (Circuit Breaker) Amendment Bill 2026 will give courts the power to sentence youth to the program, as a genuine alternative to detention.
This ensures youth offenders are removed from the community they have caused harm to, while providing them with the structure, discipline, education and intensive rehabilitation to prevent reoffending.
Legislation introduced to Parliament today outlines the program will operate in a highly controlled setting and cater for up to 60 youth offenders for up to six months.
Youth will participate in structured activities including 'hands-on' learning, for example in agricultural activities or livestock management, where they can gain practical knowledge, and the skills needed to help get them back on track.
Every participant will wear an electronic monitoring device to ensure strict compliance and the safety and security of the site and the community.
Expressions of interest are open, with the program expected to commence late this year.
The Crisafulli Government is making Queensland safer with stronger laws, more police, new early intervention and rehabilitation programs to break the cycle of crime, with a 7.2% decrease in victim numbers in 2025, compared to the previous year.
This is in stark contrast to Labor, who created Queensland's Youth Crime Crisis and has an agenda to raise the age of criminal responsibility and wind back Adult Crime, Adult Time.
Minister for Youth Justice and Victim Support Laura Gerber said Circuit Breaker Sentencing would be a game changer to stop repeat offending and make Queensland safer.
"Circuit Breaker Sentencing will be the last stop before detention and offers youth offenders one final chance to turn their lives around," Ms Gerber said.
"A program like Circuit Breaker Sentencing has never been done before in Australia, it's tough, targeted and unashamedly focused on breaking the cycle of offending so we have fewer victims of crime in the State.
"It removes repeat offenders from our streets and compels them into intensive rehabilitation, rather than simply releasing them back into the community they caused harm to.
"Under Labor's weak crime approach, youth offenders cycled through a broken system with no real intervention, the Crisafulli Government is giving courts the tools they need to deal with serious youth offenders to restore safety where you live."
