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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Establishment and operation of prisons - Bedding

71: Bedding

You could also call this:

"Prisoners must get a clean and comfy bed with enough warm bedding"

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If you are a prisoner, you must be given a separate bed and enough bedding to keep you warm, healthy, and comfortable. Your bedding must be washed often to keep it clean. Before your bedding is given to another prisoner, it must be washed. When we talk about bedding, we mean things like blankets, but we do not mean the mattress you sleep on.

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Part 2Corrections system
Establishment and operation of prisons: Bedding

71Bedding

  1. Every prisoner must be provided with a separate bed, and sufficient bedding for warmth, health, and reasonable comfort.

  2. A prisoner's bedding must be laundered as often as is necessary to maintain cleanliness.

  3. All bedding must be laundered before it is reissued to another prisoner.

  4. In this section,—

    bed includes a mattress

      bedding does not include a mattress.

      Compare
      • SR 2000/81 r 53