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Hello

 

Thank you for your email of 4 December 2018 requesting various information
relating to the operation of the prisoner incentive framework for the
2017/2018 financial year.

 

Please be advised your request has been received, and will be considered
under the Official Information Act 1982.

 

Kind regards,

Ministerial Services

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

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-----Original Message-----
From: BAW Russell [mailto:[FYI request #9188 email]]
Sent: 04 December 2018 2:45 p.m.
To: Info@Corrections
Subject: Official Information request - Prisoner Incentive Framework

 

Dear Department of Corrections,

 

I am interested in the operation of the prisoner incentive framework. For
the 2017/18 financial year can you please tell me:

 

* the total number of hours of activity undertaken at each payment level
(including the sick or unable to work rate and the refused work or removed
from work rate), if possible, broken down by the type of activity (e.g.
how many hours at each payment level for employment, education, and
rehabilitation respectively)

* the total money paid to prisoners under the framework

* the revenue earned by the Department from prisoner employment and other
activities undertaken under the framework.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

BAW Russell

 

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Good afternoon

 

Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.

 

Regards

 

Ministerial Services

National Office | Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa |

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

 

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Good afternoon

Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.

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-----Original Message-----
From: BAW Russell [mailto:[FYI request #9188 email]]
Sent: 23 January 2019 9:24 a.m.
To: Info@Corrections
Subject: Re: Correspondence from Corrections C102925

Dear Info@Corrections,

Thank you Michelle. Can you please tell me who is being consulted, on what matters, and how it was determined that this required triple the normal amount of time for an OIA request. If you are unable to provide a satisfactory explanation of why three months is required to provide basic financial information I will raise this with the Ombudsman.

Yours sincerely,

BAW Russell

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Good afternoon

 

Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections.

 

Regards

 

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

 

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Dear Mr Russell

 

Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections -
C102925.

 

Kind regards,

 

Ministerial Services

Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa

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

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-----Original Message-----
From: BAW Russell [mailto:[FOI #9188 email]]
Sent: 04 December 2018 2:45 p.m.
To: Info@Corrections
Subject: Official Information request - Prisoner Incentive Framework

 

Dear Department of Corrections,

 

I am interested in the operation of the prisoner incentive framework. For
the 2017/18 financial year can you please tell me:

 

* the total number of hours of activity undertaken at each payment level
(including the sick or unable to work rate and the refused work or removed
from work rate), if possible, broken down by the type of activity (e.g.
how many hours at each payment level for employment, education, and
rehabilitation respectively)

* the total money paid to prisoners under the framework

* the revenue earned by the Department from prisoner employment and other
activities undertaken under the framework.

 

Yours faithfully,

 

BAW Russell

 

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Dear Mr Russell

 

The number of hours paid at the sick and unable to work rate is not
recorded separately from the unemployment rate, therefore it is not
possible to report on the number of prisoners or hours paid for these
reasons. Temporary absences from work for sickness are to be paid at the
prisoner's usual employed rate, and would be recorded as such. Therefore
this part of your request is declined as the information requested does
not exist.

 

For the four random weeks of data provided, there was no one recorded as
refused to work.

 

In regard to your further query about education, please note that
prisoners receiving the incentive allowance for attending education
programmes are recorded under the ‘Reintegration’ category in the table
provided. Therefore, the information that you request does not currently
exist in a form that can be readily supplied to you, and would require
initiation of a project to extract, analyse and present the data in the
form requested.

 

Kind regards,

 

Ministerial Services

Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa

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

[1]1 [2]4,3,2

 

 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: BAW Russell [mailto:[FOI #9188 email]]
Sent: 06 May 2019 11:25 a.m.
To: Info@Corrections
Subject: RE: Official Information request - Prisoner Incentive Framework

 

Dear Info@Corrections,

 

Thank you for your response to my request. Part 1 of the request
explicitly requested the amount paid at the sick and unable to work rate,
and the refused work or removed from work rate. As these are not included
in the table provided can you confirm that no hours have been paid at this
rate for these weeks. If hours have been paid at this rate can you provide
this information or state the reason for withholding.

As this request is already extremely overdue and the matter is already
with the Ombudsman I would appreciate a rapid response so that this
request can be closed.

Yours sincerely,

 

BAW Russell

 

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

 

Dear Mr Russell

 

 

 

Please find attached correspondence from the Department of Corrections -

C102925.

 

 

 

Kind regards,

 

 

 

Ministerial Services

 

Department of Corrections Ara Poutama Aotearoa

 

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

 

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