Conditions of segregation in prisons
Sophie Buchanan made this Official Information request to Department of Corrections
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From: Sophie Buchanan
Dear Department of Corrections,
Under the Official Information Act, please go into detail about the conditions of segregation in New Zealand prisons. If this request is too general, please specifically explain the conditions under which someone would be held who was considered by themselves and/or prison staff to be at risk from the mainstream prison population.
Nāku noa,
Sophie Buchanan
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From: Info@Corrections
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Hello
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Regards
Ministerial Services Team
National Office
Department of Corrections
Mayfair House
44-52 The Terrace
Private Bag 1206
Wellington 6140
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From: Info@Corrections
Department of Corrections
Hello,
Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.
Regards,
Ministerial Services Team
National Office
Department of Corrections
Mayfair House
44-52 The Terrace
Private Bag 1206
Wellington 6140
[1]www.corrections.govt.nz
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The
information in this message is the property of the New Zealand Department
of Corrections. It is intended only for the person or entity to which it
is addressed and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any
review, storage, copying, editing, summarising, transmission,
retransmission, dissemination or other use of, by any means, in whole or
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Now that we know how low the numbers of trans prisoners are, do you think it would be worth sending a follow up request asking for information on the number of trans prisoners in seg? As with the original request for numbers of prisoners, the information could easily be found by ringing or emailing the prisons, so they couldn't deny it on the grounds of it being too difficult to extract the info from the database.
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