Corrective Services Act 2006

A prisoner may apply in writing to the chief executive for permission to remain in a corrective services facility after the prisoner’s discharge day or release day.

The chief executive may grant or refuse to grant the permission.

If the prisoner has applied to remain in the corrective services facility after the prisoner’s discharge day and the chief executive grants the permission, the prisoner—

is taken to have completed the prisoner’s period of imprisonment on the prisoner’s discharge day; and

must be discharged within 4 days after the discharge day.

While a person who was a prisoner remains in a corrective services facility after the person’s discharge day or release day, a corrective services officer may give the person a direction the officer reasonably considers necessary for the security or good order of the facility or a person’s safety.

The person must comply with the direction, unless the person has a reasonable excuse.Maximum penalty—40 penalty units.

If the person fails to comply with the direction—

the corrective services officer may direct the person to leave the corrective services facility; and

if the person fails to leave the facility—a corrective services officer may, as directed by the chief executive and using reasonably necessary force, remove the person from the facility.

Subsection (6) applies whether or not the person is charged with an offence against subsection (5).