❓ Mr. Hyde asks about the implementation of recommendations regarding rice and noodle provision for foreign national prisoners. The Minister responds that policy already addresses culturally appropriate diets and rice is provided to Asian prisoners, with additional facilities for Indonesian prisoners in Unit 8.
AnsweredQoN 4394Legislative Assembly
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In relation to the Report No. 63, Office of the Inspector of Custodial Services, tabled in State Parliament on 15 June 2010, I ask:
(a) what directives, responses and actions has the Minister undertaken to address issues raised in section 4.13, specifically relating to foreign national prisoners having to request rice through a unit interview, the recommendation that rice and noodles should be supplied as a staple and that a rice/noodle cooker should be available in every unit?
(a) what directives, responses and actions has the Minister undertaken to address issues raised in section 4.13, specifically relating to foreign national prisoners having to request rice through a unit interview, the recommendation that rice and noodles should be supplied as a staple and that a rice/noodle cooker should be available in every unit?
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Answered
15 February 2011
Responded by
Minister for Corrective Services
Response time
83 days
(a) The Department's Policy Directive 15 - '
Dietary and Nutritional Requirements
' provides that all prisoners should have access to a healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate diet that meets individual dietary requirements and maintains their health and well-being.
In line with this policy,
all
Asian prisoners are provided with steamed rice (and less regularly, soft noodles) as part of their staple diet. There is no requirement to complete a form. The rice has been provided daily (in addition to normal menu items) to this cohort for over a year.
All prisoners may purchase instant noodles from the prison canteen and cook these for themselves using the basic communal facilities in their respective accommodation blocks (namely, the hot water units).
Further to this, all Indonesian prisoners who are accommodated in Unit 8 are permitted use of rice cookers, amongst a range of other cooking implements.
Unit 8 is an enhanced living unit which allows prisoners, who have earned the privilege to be housed there through good prison conduct, greater freedom to prepare their own food (although not to the extent of Self-Care, in which there are no Indonesian prisoners).
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Dietary and Nutritional Requirements
' provides that all prisoners should have access to a healthy, nutritious and culturally appropriate diet that meets individual dietary requirements and maintains their health and well-being.
In line with this policy,
all
Asian prisoners are provided with steamed rice (and less regularly, soft noodles) as part of their staple diet. There is no requirement to complete a form. The rice has been provided daily (in addition to normal menu items) to this cohort for over a year.
All prisoners may purchase instant noodles from the prison canteen and cook these for themselves using the basic communal facilities in their respective accommodation blocks (namely, the hot water units).
Further to this, all Indonesian prisoners who are accommodated in Unit 8 are permitted use of rice cookers, amongst a range of other cooking implements.
Unit 8 is an enhanced living unit which allows prisoners, who have earned the privilege to be housed there through good prison conduct, greater freedom to prepare their own food (although not to the extent of Self-Care, in which there are no Indonesian prisoners).
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