Escape from minimum security prison has particular seriousness because it involves breach of trust and has wider implications for the administration of Corrective Services facilities, potentially jeopardising beneficial and humanitarian custodial arrangements. Sentencing judges must not make findings of fact regarding custodial classification consequences without evidence. A global non-parole period is invalid where it commences before the head sentences to which it relates or exceeds the full terms of individual sentences.
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