Corrective Services

3026. Hon Alison Xamon to the minister representing the Minister for Corrective Services:

I refer to the Inspector of Custodial Services 2019 Inspection of Casuarina Prison report and to the Department of Justice’s statement in the report that ‘Access to Indigenous specific support in prisons is also facilitated through aboriginal healthcare workers and aboriginal mental healthcare workers’, and I ask:

(a)  how many aboriginal healthcare worker FTE are employed by the Department;

3025. Hon Alison Xamon to the minister representing the Minister for Corrective Services:

I note concerns about the use of separate confinement which were raised by the Inspector of Custodial Services in the 2019 Inspection of Casuarina Prison report, and I ask:

(a)  is the Prisons Order for ‘disruptive prisoners’ referred to in that report still being used;

(b)  if yes to (a):

(i)  how many individuals are currently on a: