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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Establishment and operation of prisons - Medical treatment and health care

75: Medical treatment and standard of health care

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"Prisoners get medical treatment like everyone else outside prison"

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If you are a prisoner, you are entitled to receive medical treatment that is reasonably necessary. The health care you get in prison must be similar to what the public gets outside of prison. You should get health care that is reasonably equivalent to what everyone else gets.

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Part 2Corrections system
Establishment and operation of prisons: Medical treatment and health care

75Medical treatment and standard of health care

  1. A prisoner is entitled to receive medical treatment that is reasonably necessary.

  2. The standard of health care that is available to prisoners in a prison must be reasonably equivalent to the standard of health care available to the public.

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  • SR 2000/81 r 58