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Prisoners' Legal Service, Inc |
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere - Martin Luther King |
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Original founding members of PLS circa late 1980s |
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About Us |
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Administration Line: 07 3846 5074 Freecall: 1800 813 940 Legal Advice Line: 07 3846 3384 Facsimile: 07 3846 2703 E-mail: pls@plsqld.com
Telephone Advice service available Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:00am to 1:00pm. Call the legal advice line. Queensland prisoners can call this service through the internal Arunta Phone System at their correctional centre. |
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PRISONERS’ LEGAL SERVICE INC (PLS) was established in 1985, incorporated as an Association in August, 1987 and registered as a charity in July 1993.
The PLS is an independent community legal centre overseen by a management committee (including legal, academic, welfare and community representatives) who volunteer their time and expertise.
PLS receives its operational funding from the Community Legal Centre Program, which is administered by Legal Aid Qld (which in turn receives funding from the Federal Government CLC Program and the Qld Government CLC program). The current funding level is sufficient to employ two full time staff, being a Co-ordinator Solicitor, Casework Solicitor and a full time Administrator.
The Service is continually lobbying for funding to conduct projects such as the provision of community legal education in the form of information pamphlets and prison forums. Presently the Department of Corrective Services provides annual grants of funding for a representative of PLS to conduct annual tours of northern and regional correctional centres.
The PLS offers free legal advice, information, assistance, and referrals to Queensland prisoners and their families on matters relating to their imprisonment. (Presently there are approximately 5,000 prisoners in correctional centres throughout the state and thousands more on parole or other forms of community corrections supervision). The Service also maintains a watching brief over prisons administration and law reform in Queensland in so far as these affect prisoners and the public interest.
This Service relies on volunteers to assist in the provision of legal advice and is committed to providing opportunities for students to acquire knowledge and practical experience in social justice issues and prison law by participating in work experience programs with QUT Law and Social Science Faculties and UQ and Griffith Uni Law School. |
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