Dangerously ill prisoner
23 Dangerously ill prisoner
If the chief executive, on the advice of a health practitioner, considers a prisoner in a corrective services facility to be dangerously ill or seriously injured, the chief executive must immediately notify each of the following that the prisoner is either dangerously ill or seriously injured—
the person nominated by the prisoner as the prisoner’s contact person;
a religious visitor;
for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander prisoner—
an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander legal service representing Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander persons in the area in which the facility is located; and
if practicable, an elder, respected person or indigenous spiritual healer who is relevant to the prisoner.
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