Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Miscellaneous - Other rights of inspection

162: Right of Justice of the Peace to visit prison

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"Justices of the Peace can visit prisons to check on prisoner treatment"

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If you are a Justice of the Peace living near a prison, you can visit the prison at reasonable times. You can look at the prison and see how the prisoners are being treated, and then tell the prison manager what you think. You can talk to prisoners about how they are being treated in the prison or if they have a complaint about their treatment. The prison manager must write down what you say and keep a record of it at the prison.

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Part 2Corrections system
Miscellaneous: Other rights of inspection

162Right of Justice of the Peace to visit prison

  1. A Justice of the Peace usually resident in the locality or place where a prison is located may, at all reasonable times, enter that prison and examine the prison and the condition of the prisoners, and may inform the prison manager of his or her observations.

  2. The prison manager must ensure that any observations of a Justice of the Peace are recorded and that a permanent record of those observations is kept at the prison.

  3. A Justice of the Peace is not entitled, under subsection (1), to communicate with any prisoner except in relation to—

  4. his or her treatment in the prison:
    1. a complaint that the prisoner makes about that treatment.
      Compare
      • 1954 No 51 s 38