Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) After a prisoner dies, the chief executive must notify each of the following that the prisoner has died—
(a) if the corrective services facility is a prison—a doctor appointed for the facility;
(b) the police officer in charge of the police station nearest to the place where the prisoner died;
(c) the person nominated by the prisoner as the prisoner's contact person;
(d) a religious visitor;
(e) for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander prisoner—
(i) an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander legal service representing Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander persons in the area in which the prisoner died; and
(ii) if practicable, an elder, respected person or indigenous spiritual healer who was relevant to the prisoner.
(2) The chief executive must keep records, prescribed under a regulation, of the prisoner's death.
(3) In this section—
prisoner includes a person who, immediately before the person's death, was a prisoner, but does not include a prisoner released on parole.