What it does
This Act sets up the operational rules for adult imprisonment in Queensland. It tells Queensland Corrective Services where prisoners must be detained, how they may be searched, transported, communicated with, disciplined, paroled, and how staff and the chief executive exercise coercive powers over them. It establishes the Parole Board Queensland, sets the test for granting parole, and provides for amendment, suspension and cancellation of parole orders. It declares offences for prisoners, staff and outsiders that bear on the security of facilities. The Act runs to section 490ZP and is divided into Chapters 2 to 7 (Chapter 1 preliminary provisions sit outside the body of the Act in the stored text). The principal operational chapters are Chapter 2 (custody and management), Chapter 3 (discipline and offences), Chapter 4 (facilities, staff oversight and search powers), Chapter 5 (parole), Chapter 6 (financial assistance, the chief executive, engaged service providers, corrective services officers, official visitors, inspectors, authorised practitioners, volunteers, and elders, respected persons and spiritual healers), and Chapter 7 (transitional and savings provisions referring back to the Corrective Services Act 2000, called the 2000 Act).