Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The purpose of corrective services is community safety and crime prevention through the humane containment, supervision and rehabilitation of offenders.
(2) This Act recognises that every member of society has certain basic human entitlements, and that, for this reason, an offender's entitlements, other than those that are necessarily diminished because of imprisonment or another court sentence, should be safeguarded.
(3) This Act also recognises—
(a) the need to respect an offender's dignity; and
(b) the special needs of some offenders by taking into account—
(i) an offender's age, sex or cultural background; and
(ii) any disability an offender has.