S.07.Res.05 IDU status prisoners and employment / programmes

S.07.R05.01 Drug policy and work placement

1. IDU status prisoners should not work outside the confines of close supervision.
2. Prisoners in employment activities are required to sign an agreement to be drug and alcohol free.
3. Work party supervisors / instructors must inform the intelligence officer where they believe a prisoner has used any drug or consumed alcohol. All such information must be accompanied by an incident report or a staff information intelligence report.
4. If a prisoner tests positive for drugs, it is mandatory for the prisoner to be stood down from the employment for a period of one week.
5. Within this week the custodial systems manager and CIE must undertake a review based on security and good order or health and safety, and make the determination whether the prisoner can continue on the job. Matters to be reviewed are:
   1. the safety of the prisoner and the safety of others, in relation to all aspects of work-related machinery, vehicles and equipment
   2. the level of supervision necessary to ensure the safety of the prisoner and others
   3. any level of impairment that may affect the prisoner’s ability to perform work tasks
   4. the potential for further exposure to drugs or alcohol in and around the work site
   5. the potential for trafficking in drugs
   6. the prisoner’s security rating.
6. If the prisoner is unable to continue in the job, the custodial systems manager and CIE must consider whether there is alternative employment for the prisoner to undertake.

Note: The review may result in a security classification review, and any change in security classification may result in the prisoner being removed from release to work or other employment activities.

S.07.R05.02 Access to rehabilitation programmes / custodial arrangement tests

1. When, due to eligibility criteria, IDU prisoners are precluded from participation in rehabilitation programmes or re-integrative activities, IDU prisoners will be admitted as scheduled if they provide two negative drug tests in the two month period prior to the start of the programme / activity.
2. If a prisoner has received a negative test result from the first test and the programme / activity commences prior to the prison receiving the second test result, the prisoner can commence the programme. If the second test is positive the prisoner is to be removed from the programme / activity.
3. Programme providers and clinical and custodial systems managers have a shared discretion to retain prisoners who test positive for drugs on intensive rehabilitation programmes, or in special treatment units, when it is considered that the benefits outweigh the disadvantages in particular cases. In cases where agreement cannot be reached, it is ultimately a custodial decision as to whether the prisoner stays on the programme or not.
4. Case officers must ensure that prisoners being considered for an intensive rehabilitation programme are referred for voluntary drug testing eight weeks prior to programme commencement to ensure timeframes for drug testing are met.
5. Voluntary tests, as a pre-requisite to entry to a programme, returning a positive result must follow the regular disciplinary process as for any other positive test.
6. DCOs use S.07.Form.07 Voluntary drug test for IDU prisoner when a prisoner is referred for drug testing under this policy.
7. A copy of S.07.Form.07 Voluntary drug test for IDU prisoner is to be placed on the prisoner's file.

Note:

1. Intensive rehabilitation programmes include medium intensity rehabilitative programmes, high intensity rehabilitative programmes, Mâori Therapeutic programmes, Kowhiritanga programmes (for women).
2. Special treatment units include sex offender treatment units, violence prevention unit, addiction treatment units (ATUs and DTUs).