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Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Monitoring, collecting, using, and disclosing prisoner communications and information sources for intelligence purpose - Exemptions

127D: Exemptions for specified prisoner communications and information sources

You could also call this:

"Some prisoner communications and info are private and not shared, like health records and restorative justice talks."

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When it comes to prisoners, some of their communications and information are not monitored or shared. You might wonder what these are. They include health records that are used to treat prisoners.

Some prisoner communications are also exempt when they are part of restorative justice processes. This means that in certain situations, what prisoners say or write will not be collected or used. You can find more information about the law that allows this in the Corrections Amendment Act 2024.

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Monitoring, collecting, using, and disclosing prisoner communications and information sources for intelligence purpose: Exemptions

127DExemptions for specified prisoner communications and information sources

  1. The following prisoner communications and information sources are exempt from being monitored, collected, used, or disclosed under this subpart:

  2. prisoner health records held by the department, including psychological information that is recorded and created to provide treatment to prisoners:
    1. prisoner communications and information sources in connection with restorative justice processes.

      Notes
      • Section 127D: inserted, on , by section 36 of the Corrections Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 41).