Operations Procedures Manual

NSW Department of Corrective Services runs all the remand centres and public prisons in NSW. It operates those facilities according to its Operations Procedures Manual.

The Department does not make this important manual available on its website. As a public service, CCL provides a copy of the (publicly available) manual here.

On this page you will find excerpts from the Operations Procedures Manual. They are only the publicly available sections of the manual. If you want to see any other parts of the manual, you will have to FoI them from the Department.

Disclaimer: This copy of the manual is current as at June 2007 (unless otherwise indicated). Before relying on the information on this webpage, you should ask the Department whether this information is up-to-date. This manual only applies to public prisons in NSW run by the NSW Department of Corrective Services.

SECTION	TITLE
Sect01.00	Boards And Tribunals
Sect02.00	Inmate Classification and Placement (Case Management)
Sect03.01	Opening Inmate Mail
Sect03.02	Use Of Telephones By Inmates
Sect04.00	Inmate Earnings And Employment
Sect05.01	Inmate Services and Programs Overview
Sect05.02	Hobby Tools And Materials
Sect05.03	TAFEcard
Sect05.04	Offender Access To Computers
Sect05.05	Arts And Crafts
Sect05.06	Correctional Centre Libraries
Sect05.07	Education Programs And Materials
Sect05.08	Inmate Recreation Activities
Sect07.01	Daily Exercise For Inmates
Sect07.02	Medication
Sect07.03	Miscellaneous Health Issues
Sect07.04	Methadone And Buprenorphine Programs
Sect07.05	Infectious-Contagious Diseases
Sect07.06	Hairdressing
Sect07.08	Inmates Who Go On A Hunger Strike Or Refuse To Eat
Sect07.09	Dietary Constraints On The Basis Of Religion
Sect07.10	Sun Protection For Inmates
Sect07.11	HIV-AIDS-Hepatitis
Sect07.12	Condoms - Dental Dams
Sect07.13	Marriage Of Inmates
Sect07.14	Crisis Payments
Sect07.15	Language Services
Sect07.16	Compassionate Leave
Sect07.17	Inmate Accommodation
Sect07.18	Financial Assistance
Sect07.19	Aboriginal Inmate Committees
Sect07.20	Inmate Development Committees
Sect07.21	Indigenous Inmates
Sect07.22	Link-Up
Sect07.23	Management Of Transgender Inmates
Sect08.01-25	Legal and Administrative Matters
Sect08.26	Duty Of Care
Sect08.27	Ombudsman
Sect08.28	Inmate Requests
Sect08.29	Charter For Community Consultative Committees
Sect08.30	Handover Procedures
Sect08.31	Audio Visual Link
Sect08.32	Child Protection Procedures For Reporting Risk Of Harm to DOCS
Sect08.33	Corrective Services Support Line
Sect08.34	Records Management And Disposal
Sect08.35	Inmates Conducting Or Managing A Business While Imprisoned
Sect09.00	Inmate Private Property (as at Nov 2005)
Sect09.04	Religious And Cultural Items
Sect10.00	Reception Of Inmates
Sect11.00	Release Of Inmates
Sect12.01	Drug Related Issues
Sect12.02	Inmate Interviews With Police and Other Government Agencies
Sect12.03	Interviewing Inmates With An Intellectual Disability
Sect12.04	Searching Inmates and Correctional Centres
Sect12.05	Searching Of Employees and Visitors
Sect12.07	Security and Emergency Response
Sect12.10	Powers To Stop Detain And Search
Sect14.00	Segregated and Protective Custody
Sect15.01-24	Visits
Sect15.25	Restricting and Prohibiting Visitors
Sect15.26	Child_Parent Activity Days
Sect15.27	Family Days (as at Nov 2005)
Sect15.28	CCAP Managing Child Related Offenders Contact
Sect16.00	Inmate Discipline
Sect17.00	Area Management
Sect18.00	External Leave Programs
Sect19.00	Urinalysis In Correctional Centres
Sect20.00	Media
Sect21.00	Freedom Of Information