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Corrections Management Act 2007
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8 Management of correctional services
Correctional services must be managed so as to achieve the main
objects of this Act, particularly by—
(a) ensuring that public safety is the paramount consideration in
decision-making about the management of detainees; and
(b) ensuring respect for the humanity of everyone involved in
correctional services, including detainees, corrections officers
and other people who work at or visit correctional centres; and
(c) ensuring behaviour by corrections officers that recognises and
respects the inherent dignity of detainees as individuals; and
(d) ensuring that harm suffered by victims, and their need for
protection, are considered appropriately in decision-making
about the management of detainees.
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