Offence-Related Intervention Activities
- These are scheduled activities undertaken by a prisoner as an assessed need, and included in the sentence plan.
- Offence-Related Interventions include, but are not limited to the following rehabilitative and responsivity activities.
Rehabilitative Activities
- Special Treatment Unit programmes such as
- Kia Marama.
- Te Piriti.
- Drug and Alcohol Treatment Units.
- VPU (If the prisoners are in a Special Treatment Unit (STU) then the 90% rule applies).
- Maori Therapeutic programmes.
- FOCUS.
- Rehabilitative programmes.
- Saili Matagi - Pacific Island Violence Prevention programme.
- Psychological Service Interventions.
- One-to-one assessments linked to Intervention-Related Activities, e.g. work with the Whanau Liaison worker, interviews with Probation Officers, assessments / preparatory meetings with IS facilitators, and meetings with psychologists.
Responsivity Activities
- Tikanga Maori programmes.
- FBU Christian-based programmes.
Timing of Offence-Related intervention Activities
Offence-Related Interventions may be scheduled for morning or afternoon periods of unlock dependent on the individual offender need and the availability and timing of activities.
Education and Reintegration Activities
- These are scheduled activities undertaken by a prisoner as an assessed need, and included in the sentence plan.
- Education and Reintegration Activities include but are not limited to:
- Reintegrative programmes including Living Skills, Parenting, Budgeting.
- NCES.
- Literacy / Numeracy programmes.
- ESOL.
- Secondary education.
- Tertiary education.
Timing of Education and Reintegration Activities
- Education and Reintegration Activities should preferably be scheduled for evening or weekend periods of unlock.
Definition of employment status
- For the purposes of defining employment status, "prisoner" includes remand prisoners who have been in custody for 7 weeks or more.
- Employed prisoners on scheduled interventions retain their status if only temporarily away from work while undertaking the intervention.
Employed
- Prisoners are defined as employed in Employment Activities when they are participating in one or more of these activities:
- Land based activities.
- Manufacturing activities.
- Internal service self-sufficiency activities.
- Release to Work.
- Vocational training services.
- Community service.
Unemployed
- Prisoners are defined as unemployed when they are not employed in any of the activities above but:
- are willing to work and are able to work.
- are willing to work and are unable to work.
Wilfully Unemployed
- Prisoners are defined as wilfully unemployed when they:
- refuse to take part in any Employment Activity or
- are currently on stand down from an Employment Activity for unacceptable behaviour.
Unit-based Employment Activities
- Internal services such as unit / shower / toilet cleaning or mess duties, as per the job description, will be scheduled as an Employment Activity.
Timing of Employment Activities
- Employment activities can be undertaken at any time during unlock or outside of standard unlock hours by agreement between the Prison Manager and the CIE Site Operations Manager.
Constructive Activities
- Constructive Activities are any supervised activities identified in a sentence plan apart from Offence-Related Intervention Activities, Education and Reintegration Activities, and Employment Activities, including (but not limited to):
- Planned / organised sports, recreation and leisure activities.
- Cultural activities outside of MFUs and Tikanga Maori programmes.
- Hobbies and Library Services.
- Unit Family days.
Timing of Constructive Activities
- Constructive Activities can be undertaken at any time during the unlock period.
Daily Living Activities
- Daily Living Activities are defined as those activities which are required for prisoner meals, prisoner personal needs and hygiene and general unit living requirements e.g. cleaning own cell.
Timing of Daily Living Activities
- Daily Living Activities should be scheduled as part of the prisoner’s sentence plan / daily schedule.
Other Approved Activities
- There are a range of other, Approved Activities that need to be accommodated in a prisoner’s Structured Day, these include but are not limited to:
- Medical requirements and appointments (as required).
- ACC counselling.
- Prison-based church attendance and pastoral visits.
- Specific activities in STUs and Focus Units, e.g. karakia, physical training, shopping.
- Interviews with lawyers, Police, Inspector of Corrections Ombudsman or other officials.
- Interviews with representatives from Kaiwhakamana, Fautua Pasefika, NZPARS, other outside agencies.
- Interviews with Probation Officers for preparing pre-release reports, home leave reports, home detention reports.
- Court or Board appearances.
- Disciplinary hearings and subsequent penalty.
Timing of Other Approved Activities
- Other Approved Activities must to the fullest extent possible avoid conflicting with scheduled activities.
- Where this is not possible, the scheduling of an appointment (for example) at a time that conflicts with another activity must be with the prior agreement (which may not be unreasonably withheld) of the Activity Provider, e.g. CIE Site Operations Manager or programme providers unless the activity can not be scheduled or notified in advance such as prisoner drug testing, and some specialist medical / hospital appointments, unforeseen special visits or Court appearances.
