Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

CORRECTIONS MANAGEMENT ACT 2007 - SECT 9

Functions under this Act in relation to a detainee must be exercised as follows:

        (a)     to respect and protect the detainee's human rights;

        (b)     to ensure the detainee's decent, humane and just treatment;

        (c)     to preclude torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment;

        (d)     to ensure the detainee is not subject to further punishment (in addition to deprivation of liberty) only because of the conditions of detention;

        (e)     to ensure the detainee's conditions in detention comply with section 12 (Correctional centres—minimum living conditions);

        (f)     if the detainee is an offender—to promote, as far as practicable, the detainee's rehabilitation and reintegration into society.