Paremoremo
Emmy Rākete made this Official Information request to Department of Corrections
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From: Emmy Rākete
Department of Corrections,
I am interested in the conditions of confinement in Auckland Prison (Paremoremo).
My questions are as follows:
1) How many prisoners are kept in their cells for 23-hours a day
2) On average, how many hours per day are prisoners kept in their cells
3) Can prisoners freely interact with one another?
4) Are there restrictions on the number of hours per day that prisoners can interact?
5) How many prisoners are held in protective segregation?
6) Is segregation used as a means of discipline? If so, how many prisoners are involuntarily segregated?
Emmy Rākete
From: Emmy Rākete
Please confirm or deny that my request has been received and is being considered.
From: Info@Corrections
Department of Corrections
Hello Emmy,
Thank you for your email of 13 October 2016.
Your request has been received and is currently being processed,
Kind regards,
Ministerial Services
Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa
Mayfair House | 44-52 The Terrace | Private Box 1206 | Wellington
Reducing re-offending by 25%
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From: Info@Corrections
Department of Corrections
Good afternoon
Please see attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa
Mayfair House | 44-52 The Terrace | Private Box 1206 | Wellington
Reducing re-offending by 25%
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From: Info@Corrections
Department of Corrections
Good afternoon,
Please see attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections
Kind regards
Ministerial Services
Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa
Mayfair House | 44-52 The Terrace | Private Box 1206 | Wellington
Reducing re-offending by 25%
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information in this message is the property of the New Zealand Department
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Mark Hanna left an annotation ()
These two quotes seem a bit inconsistent with one another:
"The Department has interpreted 'protective segregation' to mean voluntary protective custody (voluntary segregation)."
"[Directed segregation] is utilised for prisoner who are assessed as being... at risk from others."
I feel like they should have just asked you for clarification instead of guessing at how they should convert "protective segregation" into their own jargon.
Although I see they did also provide the number of prisoners in Auckland Prison who are under directed segregation, which I'd assumed was what you wanted to know as your fifth question.
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