B 05.01.R3 IDU Status Prisoners and Employment / Programmes (National Requirement)

Procedure Standard (Employment)

1. IDU Status prisoners should not work outside the confines of a supervised perimeter.
2. Unit Managers, in consultation with CIE Area Operations Manager and the Intelligence Officer (if required) will review all IDU Status work placements.
3. Matters to be reviewed in the review of a work placement are:
   • The safety of the prisoner and the safety of others, in relation to all aspects of work related machinery, vehicles and equipment;
   • The level of supervision necessary to ensure the safety of the prisoner and others;
   • Any level of impairment which may affect the prisoner’s ability to perform work tasks;
   • The potential for further exposure to drugs or alcohol in and around the work site;
   • The potential for trafficking in drugs; and
   • The prisoner’s security rating.
4. New appointments to prisoner employment activities will be required to sign an agreement to be drug and alcohol free.
5. Prisoner employment work party supervisors / instructors will inform the Intelligence Officer where they believe a prisoner has used any drug or consumed alcohol.
6. All such information must be accompanied by an incident report or a staff information intelligence report.  

Drug policy and work placement

1. If a prisoner is employed and tests positive for drugs an assessment needs to be undertaken to determine whether there are any security and good order reasons, or health and safety reasons, why the prisoners should not remain in the job.
2. To support this review the policy has been adjusted to make it mandatory for the prisoner to be stood down from the employment for a period of one week. Within this week the Unit Manager and CIE must undertake the review and make the determination based on an assessment of security and good order or health and safety whether the prisoner can continue the job.
3. If the prisoner is unable to continue in the job for those reasons, the Unit Manager and CIE must consider whether there is alternative employment for the prisoner to undertake.

Note: The review may result in a security classification review, and any change in security classification may result in the prisoner being removed from Release to Work or other employment activities.

Education

Improving Access to Rehabilitation programmes

1. When, due to eligibility criteria, IDU prisoners are precluded from participation in rehabilitation programmes or re-integrative activities, IDU prisoners will be admitted as scheduled if they provide two negative drug tests in the two month period prior to the start of the programme / activity.
2. If a prisoner has received a negative test result from the first test and the programme / activity commences prior to the prison receiving the second test result the prisoner can commence the programme. If the second test is positive the prisoner is to be removed from the programme / activity.
3. Programme providers and clinical and unit managers have a shared discretion to retain prisoners who test positive for drugs on intensive rehabilitation programmes, or in special treatment units, when it is considered the benefits outweigh the disadvantages in particular cases. In cases where agreement cannot be reached, it is ultimately a custodial decision as to whether the prisoner stays on the programme or not.

Intensive Rehabilitation programmes include:

• Medium Intensity Rehabilitative programme
• High Intensity Rehabilitative programme
• Maori Therapeutic programme
• Kowhiritanga programme (for women)

Special Treatment Units include:

• Sex Offender Treatment Units
• Violence Prevention Unit
• Addiction Treatment Units (ATUs and DTUs)

Note:

1. Case officers must ensure that prisoners being considered for an Intensive Rehabilitation Programme are referred for voluntary drug testing eight weeks prior to programme commencement to ensure timeframes for drug testing are met.
2. Collections Officer use B.05.01.F7 "Voluntary Drug Test Form for IDU Prisoners" when a prisoner is referred for drug testing under this policy.

A copy of B.05.01.F7 "Voluntary Drug Test Form for IDU Prisoners" is to be placed on the prisoner's file.