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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Establishment and operation of prisons - Assessment, use of time, management plans, and programmes

51: Management plans

You could also call this:

"A plan to help prisoners stay safe and prepare for release from prison"

If you are a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment for more than 2 months, or you are in custody for more than 2 months on remand, this law applies to you. The chief executive must make sure you have a special plan to manage your time in prison. This plan is called an individual management plan.

Your plan must be prepared and updated regularly, following any rules and instructions given under section 196. Your plan can have more than one document and these documents can be kept in different places, either physically or electronically.

Your plan is based on what you need, what you are capable of, and your behaviour. It must keep you and others safe, and make sure you are treated fairly and humanely. Your plan also outlines how you can use your time in prison to address your behaviour and prepare for release. It includes how you can be helped to reintegrate into the community when you are released, and any other matters required by instructions under section 196.

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Establishment and operation of prisons: Assessment, use of time, management plans, and programmes

51Management plans

  1. This section applies to every prisoner who is—

  2. sentenced to imprisonment for a term of more than 2 months; or
    1. in custody for a continuous period of more than 2 months on remand.

      1. The chief executive must ensure that an individual management plan is devised for every prisoner to whom this section applies.

      2. Each plan must be prepared, and revised at regular intervals, in accordance with any prescribed requirements and any relevant instructions issued under section 196.

      3. A plan may comprise more than 1 document, and those documents may be kept in different physical or electronic locations.

      4. Each plan must—

      5. be based on an assessment of the needs, capacities, and disposition of the prisoner; and
        1. make provision for the safe, secure, and humane containment of the prisoner; and
          1. outline how the prisoner can make constructive use of his or her time in the prison (including, in the case of a person sentenced to imprisonment, ways of addressing offending behaviour and preventing reoffending); and
            1. outline how the prisoner may be prepared for eventual release from the prison and successful reintegration into the community; and
              1. include any prescribed matter or other matter required to be included in the plan by instructions issued under section 196; and
                1. be consistent with the resources available to the chief executive to manage the prisoner.

                  Notes
                  • Section 51(3A): inserted, on , by section 9 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 57).