Interviewing and photographing prisoner etc.
132 Interviewing and photographing prisoner etc.
A person must not—
interview a prisoner, or obtain a written or recorded statement from a prisoner, whether the prisoner is inside or outside a corrective services facility; orNote—Prisoner, as defined in schedule 4, includes a prisoner released on parole.
photograph or attempt to photograph—
a prisoner inside a corrective services facility; or
a part of a corrective services facility.
Maximum penalty—100 penalty units or 2 years imprisonment.
A person does not commit an offence against subsection (1) if the person is—
for subsection (1)(a) or (b)(i)—the prisoner’s lawyer; or
an employee of a law enforcement agency; or
the ombudsman; or
the inspector of detention services; or
a person who has the chief executive’s written approval to carry out the activity mentioned in the subsection.
In this section—photograph includes record or create a visual image other than by photography.
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