(1) After a prisoner dies, the chief executive must notify each of the
following that the prisoner has died—
(a) if the corrective services
facility is a prison—a health practitioner;
(b) the police officer in
charge of the police station nearest to the place where the prisoner died;
(c) the person nominated by the prisoner as the prisoner’s contact person;
(d) a religious visitor;
(e) for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander
prisoner—
(i) an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander legal service
representing Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander persons in the area in which
the prisoner died; and
(ii) if practicable, an elder, respected person or
indigenous spiritual healer who was relevant to the prisoner.
(2) The chief
executive must keep records, prescribed under a regulation, of the
prisoner’s death.
(3) In this section—
"prisoner" includes a person who, immediately before the person’s death, was
a prisoner, but does not include a prisoner released on parole.
