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Dear Ms McIntyre,

 

 

Thank you for your email of 31 July 2017, requesting information relating
to

 

- A prisoner sexually assaulting a staff member.

- A prisoners seriously assaulting a staff member.

- A prisoner sexually assaulting other prisoner.

- A prisoner seriously assaulting another prisoner.

- Deaths in custody of apparent natural causes.

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- Self-harm.

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- The removal of waist restraints/mechanical restraints.

- Prisoner related incidences while in police-care.

- Prisoner related incidences while in the care of a contractor.

- Incidences of accidental serious harm to a prisoner.

- Hunger strikes.

 

Your request will be considered under the Official Information Act 1982.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

Ana.

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kate McIntyre [mailto:[FOI #6308 email]]
Sent: 30 July 2017 4:17 p.m.
To: Info@Corrections
Subject: Official Information request - Incidents notification to
Ombudsman

 

Dear Department of Corrections,

 

I see that in Appendix 2, page 11 of your Memorandum of Understanding with
the Office of the Ombudsman that you are required to provide data on the
following incidences:

 

- A prisoner sexually assaulting a staff member.

- A prisoners seriously assaulting a staff member.

- A prisoner sexually assaulting other prisoner.

- A prisoner seriously assaulting another prisoner.

- Deaths in custody of apparent natural causes.

- Deaths in custody for apparent homicide.

- Deaths in custody for apparent suicide.

- Deaths in custody for apparent accidents.

- Deaths in custody for unknown/unconfirmed incidences.

- Self-harm.

- Escapes.

- Incidences of rioting.

- Incidences of hostage taking.

- Attempted escapes.

- Find of escape aids.

- The removal of waist restraints/mechanical restraints.

- Prisoner related incidences while in police-care.

- Prisoner related incidences while in the care of a contractor.

- Incidences of accidental serious harm to a prisoner.

- Hunger strikes.

 

I have provided a link to the MOU here for reference:
[3]http://www.ombudsman.parliament.nz/syste...

 

Please provide me with data regarding all incidences of those categories
listed above, broken down by year, from 2012 to 2017.

 

Yours faithfully,

Kate McIntyre.

 

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Good afternoon

 

Please see attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.

 

Kind regards,

 

Ministerial Services  |

National Office | Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa |

44-52 The Terrace, Wellington 6011 | Private Box 1206, Wellington 6140 |

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Good afternoon,

 

Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.

 

Kind regards,

 

Ministerial Services |

National Office | Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa |

44-52 The Terrace, Wellington 6011 | Private Box 1206, Wellington 6140 |

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Dear Ms McIntyre,

 

 

Thank you for your email of 26 September 2017, requesting information
relating to sexual assault and deaths in custody data held by the
Department.

 

 

Your request will be considered under the Official Information Act 1982.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kate McIntyre [mailto:[FYI request #6308 email]]
Sent: 26 September 2017 1:40 p.m.
To: Info@Corrections
Subject: Re: Correspondence from Corrections C87710

 

Dear Department of Corrections.

 

In your response, you linked me to the Corrections website for a number of
sets of data. I note however, that in the following instances, you linked
me to information that is not quite the same as what I asked.

 

I requested:

- A prisoner sexually assaulting a staff member.

- A prisoners seriously assaulting a staff member.

- A prisoner sexually assaulting other prisoner.

- A prisoner seriously assaulting another prisoner.

(in these cases, you simply linked me to serious assaults)

- Deaths in custody of apparent natural causes.

- Deaths in custody for apparent homicide.

- Deaths in custody for apparent suicide.

- Deaths in custody for apparent accidents.

- Deaths in custody for unknown/unconfirmed incidences.

(in these cases, you provided unnatural/natural deaths).

 

However, because you give all of the above data to the Ombudsman (through
the notification system), the data must be available in that form.

Please provide with the information I requested. For clarity, I am
requesting the number of incident notifications to the Ombudsman for the
following types of incidents:

- A prisoner sexually assaulting a staff member.

- A prisoners seriously assaulting a staff member.

- A prisoner sexually assaulting other prisoner.

- A prisoner seriously assaulting another prisoner.

- Deaths in custody of apparent natural causes.

- Deaths in custody for apparent homicide.

- Deaths in custody for apparent suicide.

- Deaths in custody for apparent accidents.

- Deaths in custody for unknown/unconfirmed incidences.

 

Best wishes,

Kate McIntyre.

 

-----Original Message-----

 

Good afternoon,

 

 

 

Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

 

 

Ministerial Services |

 

National Office | Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa |

 

44-52 The Terrace, Wellington 6011 | Private Box 1206, Wellington 6140 |

 

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Good afternoon,

 

Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.

 

Kind regards,

 

Ministerial Services |

National Office | Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa |

44-52 The Terrace, Wellington 6011 | Private Box 1206, Wellington 6140 |

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Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.

 

Kind regards,

 

 

Ministerial Services

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Mayfair House | 44-52 The Terrace |  Private Box 1206 | Wellington

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