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From: Grace Gordon
Dear Department of Corrections,
I am interested in learning about the Department's response to COVID-19 and the response to the Ombudsman's recommendations.
1) Has the Department of Corrections conducted any research into the management of COVID-19 in prisons?
1a) If yes, please provide me with those research documents.
2) Has the Department consulted research from other jurisdictions about policies and practices to manage COVID-19?
2a) If so, please provide me with the names of these pieces of research, where I can find them and when these projects were completed?
3) How has this research informed the Department’s COVID-19 response?
4) What rationale was used for keeping Spring Hill prison in level 3 while the wider Waikato community was moved to level 2?
4a) What policy guidance and research informed this decision?
5) In the Office of the Ombudsman’s report into the management of COVID-19 in prisons, it is stated that the Department has accepted all the Chief Ombudsman’s recommendations. Please advise me on the steps that the Department has made to ensure the recommendations have been fulfilled.
5a) Please outline the steps taken in response to each specific recommendation.
Yours faithfully,
Grace Gordon
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Ngā mihi | Kind regards,
Ministerial Services
Department of Corrections, Ara Poutama Aotearoa
a: National Office, Mayfair House, 44-52 The Terrace, Wellington 6011
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Kind regards
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a: Mayfair House, 44 - 52 The Terrace, Wellington 6011
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