The ACT Government is pleased to announce Rebecca Minty has been appointed as the ACT's new Inspector of Correctional Services.
Ms Minty has served as the Deputy Inspector of Correctional Services since 2018 and will begin her five-year term today. She takes over from Neil McAllister, who was appointed on 14 March 2018.
The role of Inspector was established in 2017 to provide independent oversight of adult corrections and youth justice facilities in the ACT. In 2022, the Office of the Inspector was appointed as part of ACT's National Preventive Mechanism to provide oversight of places of detention under the OPCAT.
Minister for Corrections Mick Gentleman welcomed Ms Minty to the role and thanked the outgoing Inspector, Neil McAllister, for his significant service to the ACT.
"I'd like to thank and acknowledge the significant and valued contribution Neil McAllister had as the inaugural Inspector during the last five years,
"Neil has paved the way for his successors. He has contributed to the ongoing improvement of correctional centres and services in the ACT, having completed numerous reviews into incidents and issues facing our correctional centres,
"I am very pleased to welcome Rebecca Minty as the ACT's new Inspector of Correctional Services. Ms Minty brings a wealth of experience to the role as Deputy Inspector of Correctional Services for five years. She also has a strong background in human rights law and policy and detention oversight, both in the ACT and internationally," Minister Gentleman said.
Ms Minty has experience working for the Geneva-based non-government organisation, the Association for the Prevention of Torture, on their Asia-Pacific Program from 2012-2016. She also worked in Bangkok in 2016 as Human Rights Officer for the UN Office of the Human Rights Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).
Ms Minty was a co-founder of the Australia Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture (OPCAT) Network, a group of civil society, academics, oversight entities and individuals interested in Australia's ratification and implementation of the OPCAT.
Ms Minty holds Masters degrees in Law and International and Area Studies from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She also has a Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) and Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) from the Australian National University.
She was admitted to Practice as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the ACT in 2007.
