03/02/2022
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Custodial Operations, Safety
12/01/2022
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Accountability, Custodial Operations, Respect, Safety
Managing COVID-19 in prisons
Planning for COVID-19 in our prisons We’re sure that you are aware that COVID-19 is spreading in communities across Queensland, and we are beginning to see cases of COVID-19 in our correctional centres amongst officers and prisoners. This was expected and planned-for long before the...
07/01/2022
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Media Response
Response: LGCC COVID-19 update
As at midday 7 January, Lotus Glen Correctional Centre had four officers unfit for duty due to COVID-19. There was one prisoner with confirmed COVID. The unit has remained in lockdown to allow for prisoner testing and cleaning. Due to the rapidly changing situation with...
06/01/2022
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Community Corrections and Specialist Operations, Corrections 2030 principles, Custodial Operations, Organisational Capability, Safety
AGCC reports positive COVID-19 cases
Officers at Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre are currently working with a number of confirmed positive COVID-19 prisoners. AGCC General Manager, Chief Superintendent Scott Collins confirmed the COVID-19 cases in a recent internal broadcast reassuring officers that the safety and wellbeing of the centre were his...
24/12/2021
Responding to COVID-19 in correctional centres and community corrections
Responding to COVID-19 in correctional centres and community corrections Custodial Operations How are correctional centres responding to COVID-19? Revised 17 November 2022 QCS seeks to preserve the integrity of the correctional environment by managing the spread of COVID-19 and limiting, as far as...
24/09/2021
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Accountability, Brisbane Region, Central Region, Community Corrections and Specialist Operations, Custodial Operations, Empowerment, Excellence, Far Northern Region, North Coast Region, Northern Region, Organisational Capability, Respect, Safety, South Coast Region, Southern Region
Queensland Corrective Services COVID vaccinations
We’ve worked hard to keep COVID out of our prisons, but now we need your help. If you visit our centres, please get vaccinated as soon as you can so we can make restrictions a thing of the past.
05/02/2021
COVID-19 (Coronavirus): Information for stakeholders
QCS operations and COVID-19 The global effort to combat COVID-19 is ongoing and many nations are feeling the effects of this scourge. These are difficult and challenging times for all of us. As you know, the governments in our country started their planning early to...
04/01/2021
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Brisbane Region, Central Region, Community Corrections and Specialist Operations, Custodial Operations, Far Northern Region, North Coast Region, Northern Region, Organisational Capability, Safety, South Coast Region, Southern Region
COVID-19 update, Victoria community transmission
To ensure the safety of officers and prisoners, visitors to our prisons will be screened to ensure they have not been to Victoria recently. On advice of the Chief Health Officer, we are restricting access to anyone who has been in Victoria in the last...
22/12/2020
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Brisbane Region, Central Region, Custodial Operations, Far Northern Region, North Coast Region, Northern Region, South Coast Region, Southern Region
COVID-19 announcement – Visits to Queensland Correctional Centres
Due to the declaration of the Greater Sydney Area as a COVID-19 hot spot, visitors to our prisons will be screened to ensure they have not been in the area in the past 14 days, or since 11 December, whichever period is shorter. For the...
28/09/2020
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Accountability, Brisbane Region, Central Region, Community Corrections and Specialist Operations, Custodial Operations, Empowerment, Excellence, Far Northern Region, North Coast Region, Northern Region, Respect, Safety, South Coast Region, Southern Region