CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 52 News and educational services

CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 52

    (1)     The director-general must ensure, as far as practicable, that detainees have reasonable access to—

        (a)     newspapers, radio and television broadcasts and other mass media (including the internet) for news and information; and

        (b)     a library or library service.

    (2)     The director-general may, as part of a detainee's case management plan, approve a detainee participating in academic, vocational or cultural education or training if satisfied it would benefit the detainee in any of the following ways:

        (a)     by providing the detainee with suitable vocational skills;

        (b)     by promoting the detainee's rehabilitation or reintegration into society;

        (c)     by contributing satisfactorily to the detainee's personal development.

    (3)     For chapter 10 (Discipline), participation in education or training approved under subsection (2) is taken to be an entitlement for the detainee.