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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Establishment and operation of prisons - Security classifications

48: Further provisions relating to security classifications

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"What happens when you get a security classification in prison and how you can ask for it to be changed"

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If you are a prisoner and you get a security classification, or if it changes, the prison manager must tell you in writing about the classification and why you got it. You have the right to know what your security classification is and the reasons for it. The prison manager must make sure you get this information quickly.

If you do not agree with your security classification, you can ask the chief executive to think about it again. The chief executive must make sure your classification is looked at again quickly and in the right way. You will get a decision in writing when your security classification is assigned or reconsidered.

You can only ask for your security classification to be reconsidered if it has been more than 6 months since you last asked. This means you cannot keep asking for your classification to be changed if it was already looked at recently.

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Part 2Corrections system
Establishment and operation of prisons: Security classifications

48Further provisions relating to security classifications

  1. If a security classification is assigned to a prisoner, or the security classification assigned to a prisoner is changed, the manager of the prison in which the prisoner is detained must ensure that the prisoner is promptly informed in writing of—

  2. that classification or, as the case may be, that changed classification; and
    1. the reasons for the assignment of that classification or, as the case may be, that changed classification.

      1. A prisoner who is dissatisfied with the security classification for the time being assigned to that prisoner may apply to the chief executive for a reconsideration of that classification, and the chief executive must ensure that the security classification is reconsidered promptly in the prescribed manner.

      2. Despite subsection (2), a prisoner may not make an application under subsection (2) if the security classification that applies to the prisoner was reconsidered, as a consequence of an earlier application under subsection (2), within the previous 6 months.

      3. Whenever a security classification is assigned to a prisoner or a security classification assigned to a prisoner is reconsidered, the prisoner must be informed in writing of the decision.

      Compare
      • 1954 No 51 s 17B