CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 99 Monitoring—general considerations

CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 99

In exercising a function under this part, the director-general must ensure that the following are balanced appropriately:

        (a)     the need to protect the safety of detainees, corrections officers, other people who work at or visit correctional centres, and the community;

        (b)     the need for security and good order at correctional centres;

        (c)     the benefits of detainees maintaining contact with the community outside correctional centres;

        (d)     the need to protect the privacy of detainees;

        (e)     the need to prevent intimidation and corruption at correctional centres, and the commission of offences;

        (f)     the need to detect prohibited things entering, at, or leaving correctional centres;

        (g)     anything else the director-general considers, on reasonable grounds, to be relevant.