| Post: | Acting Commissioner |
| Body: | Corrective Services |
| Incumbent: | Leon Taylor |
| Incumbentsince: | 2023 |
| Department: | Corrections Division, Department of Communities and Justice |
| Style: | Acting Commissioner |
| Reports To: | Secretary of Communities and Justice |
| Seat: | Haymarket, New South Wales |
| Nominator: | Minister for Corrections |
| Appointer: | Governor of New South Wales |
| Constituting Instrument: | Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 (NSW) |
| Precursor: | Comptroller-General Sheriff Provost Marshal |
| Formation: | 2009 |
| First: | Henry Brewer |
The Commissioner of Corrective Services is a statutory office-holder in the State of New South Wales, Australia, with responsibility for the State's prison, parole and community corrections systems. The Acting Commissioner is Leon Taylor. Since 2009, Corrections has been a division of the State's justice department, currently known as the Department of Communities and Justice. Prior to 2009, the Commissioner managed their own Department of Corrective Services.
Between 1979 and 1988, the Department of Corrective Services was managed by a five-person Corrective Services Commission. This model had been recommended by John Nagle in his royal commission report. From 2009, the Commissioner served as a deputy secretary within the larger Department of Justice. Although commissioners have generally been recruited from other professions, both the incumbent and his predecessor began their careers as prison officers.
| Agency | Term start | Term end | Term duration | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="Brewer" | Henry Brewer | Provost Marshal | ||||
| Thomas Smyth | Provost Marshal | |||||
| Garnham Blaxcell | Acting Provost Marshal | |||||
| William Gore | Provost Marshal | |||||
| John Thomas Campbell | Provost Marshal | |||||
| John Mackaness | Sheriff | |||||
| William Carter | Sheriff | Office of the Sheriff | 1828 | 1828 | ||
| Thomas Macquoid | Sheriff | Office of the Sheriff | 1829 | 1841 | ||
| Adolphus William Young | Sheriff | Office of the Sheriff | 1843 | 1849 | ||
| Gilbert Eliot | Sheriff | Office of the Sheriff | 1849 | 1854 | ||
| John O'Neill Brenan | Sheriff | Office of the Sheriff | 1855 | 1860 | ||
| George Richard Uhr | Sheriff | Office of the Sheriff | 1861 | 1864 | ||
| Harold Maclean | Sheriff | Office of the Sheriff | 1864 | 1874 | ||
| data-sort-value="Maclean" | Harold Maclean | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | 1874 | 1889 | |
| George Miller | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | 1896 | |||
| William Neitenstein[1] [2] [3] | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| WM McFarlane[4] | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| Samuel McCauley[5] [6] | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| Denis Gaynor D'Arcy | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| William Urquhart[7] | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| HH McDougall[8] | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| George Steele[9] | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| William Francis Hinchy[10] | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| George F. Murphy | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| Leslie Cecil Joshua Nott[11] | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| Harold Richard Vagg | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| John Arthur Morony | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | ||||
| Walter McGeechan | Comptroller-General | Department of Prisons | 1970 | |||
| Walter McGeechan | Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 1970 | |||
| data-sort-value="Downs" | Leslie Kenneth Downs | Acting Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 18 January 1978 | 19 June 1978 | |
| data-sort-value="Downs" | Leslie Kenneth Downs | Associate Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 19 June 1978 | 15 November 1978 | |
| data-sort-value="Day" | Noel Stanley Day | Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 19 June 1978 | 19 March 1979 | |
| data-sort-value="Vinson" | Dr Phillippe Anthony Vinson | Chairman and Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 19 March 1979 | 6 October 1981 | |
| data-sort-value="Day" | Noel Stanley Day | Deputy Chairman and Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 19 March 1979 | ||
| data-sort-value="Bailey" | Arnold Victor Bailey | Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 19 March 1979 | ||
| data-sort-value="Ellard" | Dr John Victor Temple Ellard | Commissioner (part-time) | Department of Corrective Services | 19 March 1979 | ||
| data-sort-value="Hayes" | Francis Daniel Hayes | Commissioner (part-time) | Department of Corrective Services | 19 March 1979 | ||
| data-sort-value="Dalton" | Vern Dalton | Chairman and Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 1981 | 22 August 1988 | |
| Stanley Miller | Commissioner (part-time) | Department of Corrective Services | 19 March 1986 | 22 August 1988 | ||
| Dr Glenice Kay Hancock | Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 1 December 1986 | 22 August 1988 | ||
| Dr Susan Carol Hayes | Commissioner (part-time) | Department of Corrective Services | 1 December 1986 | 22 August 1988 | ||
| David John Robert Grant | Deputy Chairman and Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 27 January 1987 | 22 August 1988 | ||
| Noel Stanley Day | Acting Director-General | Department of Corrective Services | 22 August 1988 | 8 March 1989 | ||
| data-sort-value="Graham2" | Angus Graham | Director-General | Department of Corrective Services | 8 March 1989 | 10 October 1991 | |
| data-sort-value="Graham2" | Angus Graham | Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 10 October 1991 | ||
| data-sort-value="Smethurst" | Neville Smethurst | Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 26 August 1996 | ||
| data-sort-value="Keliher" | Dr Leo Keliher | Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 2002 | ||
| data-sort-value="Woodham" | Ron Woodham | Commissioner | Department of Corrective Services | 2002 | 2009 | 10 years |
| Ron Woodham | Commissioner | Department of Justice and Attorney General | 2009 | 2012 | 10 years | |
| data-sort-value="Severin" | Peter Severin | Commissioner | Department of Attorney General and Justice | 2012 | 2021 | 9 years |
| Kevin Corcoran PSM | Commissioner | Department of Communities and Justice | 2021 | 2024 | 3 years | |
| Leon Taylor | Acting Commissioner | Department of Communities and Justice | 2023 |