The Commissioner of Corrective Services is a statutory office-holder in the State of New South Wales,

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, with responsibility for the State's

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and community corrections systems. The incumbent is Kevin Corcoran PSM. Prior to 2009, the Commissioner managed his own Department of Corrective Services. Since 2009, Corrections has been a division of the State's justice department, currently known as the

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Previous office-holders

Between 1979 and 1988, the Department of Corrective Services was managed by a five-person Corrective Services Commission. This model had been recommended by

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in his royal commission report. From 2009, the Commissioner served as a deputy secretary within the larger

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. Although commissioners have generally been recruited from other professions, both the incumbent and his predecessor began their careers as prison officers.

List of Corrective Services Commissioners

References

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