(AAP) A secret assessment of how terrorists are able to be kept behind bars despite completing their sentences has found serious problems.
The report, released to AAP under freedom of information laws, found strong doubts about the reliability of the way authorities predicted the risk a terrorist would re-offend — which is what underpins decisions to keep them locked up.
The Australian government uses assessment methods VERA-2R and Radar to determine the risk posed, which is then used as a basis to have a court grant a continuing detention order (CDO).
A CDO allows convicted terrorists to be kept behind bars after they have served their prison sentence because of the risk to public safety.
