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Dear Ti,

 

Thank you for your emails of 21 June 2018, requesting information relating
to prisoners being asked their sexual orientation on reception to prison.

 

Please note your further inwards email providing an amendment of this
request was also received.

 

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

 

Kind regards,

 

Anais.

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ti Lamusse [mailto:[FYI request #8080 email]]
Sent: 21 June 2018 9:43 a.m.
To: Info@Corrections
Subject: Official Information request - Receiving office and sexual
orientation

 

Dear Department of Corrections,

 

In Anna Leask’s 2017 book, “Behind Bars”, she claims that, on being
received in a prison, each prisoner is asked a series of questions (both
for the purposes of ascertaining at-risk status, as well as demographic
and other questions). She claims that prisoners are asked their sexual
orientation in the receiving office, when they first enter prison.

 

1. Is this claim correct? Is there a national policy to ask the sexual
orientation of all prisoners on reception to prison? If yes, does this
happen each time they are transferred between the prison estate, or just
when they enter prison for the first time?

 

2. I understand that this question may differ from prison to prison.
Please let me know what the policy is on asking sexual orientation, broken
down by each prison.

 

3. If this data is collected, please provide me with the throughput number
of people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, or otherwise
non-heterosexual. Please break this down by year. Please provide me with
the throughput total number of prisoners for the corresponding years.

 

4. If this data is collected at a prison-by-prison basis, please provide
the throughput for non-heterosexual prisoners, as well as, the throughput
of all prisoners, broken down by each prison.

 

If this data is available, please provide it to me in excel spreadsheet
form.

 

Please contact me if you need clarification.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Ti Lamusse

 

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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 |
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ti Lamusse [mailto:[FOI #8080 email]]
Sent: 21 June 2018 9:43 a.m.
To: Info@Corrections
Subject: Official Information request - Receiving office and sexual orientation

Dear Department of Corrections,

In Anna Leask’s 2017 book, “Behind Bars”, she claims that, on being received in a prison, each prisoner is asked a series of questions (both for the purposes of ascertaining at-risk status, as well as demographic and other questions). She claims that prisoners are asked their sexual orientation in the receiving office, when they first enter prison.

1. Is this claim correct? Is there a national policy to ask the sexual orientation of all prisoners on reception to prison? If yes, does this happen each time they are transferred between the prison estate, or just when they enter prison for the first time?

2. I understand that this question may differ from prison to prison. Please let me know what the policy is on asking sexual orientation, broken down by each prison.

3. If this data is collected, please provide me with the throughput number of people who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, or otherwise non-heterosexual. Please break this down by year. Please provide me with the throughput total number of prisoners for the corresponding years.

4. If this data is collected at a prison-by-prison basis, please provide the throughput for non-heterosexual prisoners, as well as, the throughput of all prisoners, broken down by each prison.

If this data is available, please provide it to me in excel spreadsheet form.

Please contact me if you need clarification.

Yours sincerely,

Ti Lamusse

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