Inter-prison Transfers in Aotearoa New Zealand

Data and scripts to format and interrogate data provided by Corrections NZ on Inter-prison transfers between 2 July 2018 and 22 July 2021.

Freedom of Information Request (FOI) - Inter-prison Transfers Across Time and Place

https://fyi.org.nz/request/16105-inter-prison-transfers-across-time-and-place#outgoing-27826

Inter-prison Transfer Data Format

The original spreadsheet provided by Corrections includes the following fields.

From

Prison Name as abbreviation.

To

Prison Name as abbreviation.

Reasons

• Population Pressure - Adviser Prison Population only
  1. For muster management purpose.
  2. To separate different categories of prisoners
• Judicial - RO staff, PCO of the unit or Board Liaison Officers
  1. For Judicial purposes. The transfer is pursuant to section 143 of the Sentencing Act 2002
• Medical - Health staff
  1. to provide Health care
• Placement Management - Prison Director, Residential Manager or PCO
  1. to ensure the safety of that prisoner or any other reason
  2. to reduce the risk of suicide or self-harm transfer has been directed by the Chief Executive or an Inspector
  3. to restore or maintain security and order of the prison
• Personal Request - PCO
  1. prisoner request transfer
• Accepted for Programme - PCO or delegate from the destination unit
  1. for reintegration / rehabilitation purposes
  2. to address offender plan activities
• Release - PCO or RO staff to be close to home region
• Placement Review - PCO
  1. to assist in likelihood of reducing re-offending due to change in security classification to allow for repairs or alterations at the prison

https://www.corrections.govt.nz/resources/policy_and_legislation/Prison-Operations-Manual/Movement/M.04-External-movement-transportation-of-prisoners/M.04.03-Inter-prison-transfers

Transfer Date

The date the person was transferred.

Status At Transfer

• Sentenced (Maximum)

• Sentenced (High)

• Sentenced (Minimum)

• Sentenced (Low Medium)

• Sentenced (Low)

• Remand - Convicted

• Remand - Accused

Errata

The following records were did not include dates.

SHCF,Waikeria,Judicial,, MECF,NRCF,In Transit/Multi-Site Move,, MECF,SHCF,Judicial,, MECF,SHCF,Personal Request,, Rimutaka,SHCF,In Transit/Multi-Site Move,,

Prison Locations Data Format

Field	Description
Prison	Prison Name
Abbreviated	Abbreviated Name
Official Name	Corrections NZ Name
Capacity	Prison popluation capacity
Opened	Date opened
Closed	Date closed
Gender	Men/Women
Classification	Minimum/Low/Low-Medium/High/Maximum
Latitude	Latitude
Longitude	Longitude
Name	Common Name

Scripts

Cleanse

• Remove anything not used in the visualisation
• Add latitude and longitude
• segregate out population manaegment stats from over all stats.

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