5.7.1 Both stakeholders and the Department agreed that the minimum sentencing legislation has had an adverse effect on the prison population and profile, and that it did not advance restorative justice initiatives. The Committee will engage stakeholders within the JCPS cluster and non-governmental organisations for further discussions around the possibility of amending the legislation so as to align it with the White Paper. 5.7.2 In line with the Department's rehabilitation and restorative justice objectives,alternative sentencing and diversion should be more rigorously marketed to magistrates. That having been said, the Committee acknowledges that unless magistrates are confident in the DCS' ability to adequately manage those on alternative sentences, such sentencing will remain rare.