00:02A home for Brisbane's homeless.
00:04Night Sanctuary becomes a place where there's nowhere to go, there's somewhere to go.
00:08$7 million dollars in state funding will allow Emanuel City Mission to offer
00:13110 beds for rough sleepers every night.
00:17It fills a really important gap for the Queenslanders who, for whatever reason,
00:22won't engage with services. The Queenslanders who have been chewed up and spat out by the system.
00:27Brisbane does not have anything like this. This is one of a kind.
00:31The South Brisbane Centre has been operating a one-night-a-week trial for an average of 30 homeless people.
00:37We don't want to be like other Olympic cities where vulnerable people have been bussed out of the middle of
00:42town to paper over the cracks.
00:45Meantime, the government's dealing with a crisis in jails, with Queensland's prison population on the rise.
00:52An Auditor General report found almost half of sentenced prisoners released from jail return within two years.
01:01The prisoner population has increased by 54% in the decade to June 2025 to more than 11,000 detainees.
01:11It's meant 13 of Queensland's 20 correctional centres have held more prisoners than originally intended.
01:19They're spending all this money on building prisons and there's no money for rehabilitation and that's not good for the
01:27community.
01:27The minister deflected when asked to respond.
01:31Yeah, I'll give you a stat. The Auditor General found that under the previous Labor government,
01:3696% of youth offenders returned back to detention.
01:41Well, this government has completely failed to plan.
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