Personal visits to SEQ prisons suspended

Due to cases of COVID-19 in the community, personal visits have been suspended to all South East Queensland prisons on the advice of the Chief Health Officer (CHO).

This decision was made to protect the safety of prisoners and our officers and includes all prisons from Maryborough to the NSW border.

All other visits, including legal, service provider and official visits will continue with appropriate social distancing.

Every person entering the prison will undergo health screening including thermal imaging, and new reception prisoners are subject to 14 day isolation protocols.

This suspension will be regularly reviewed in line with advice from the CHO.

Contact the correctional centre to find out about alternative ways you can talk to a prisoner.

From July 10, personal visits to prisons will be re-introduced in correctional centres across Queensland. Due to the ongoing threat of COVID-19, there will be some changes. Visits will look different than prior to the pandemic with mandatory health and safety measures in place for visitors, including: health screening and temperature checks upon arrival handwashing and sanitising upon arrival and…
Queensland Corrective Services (QCS) has launched a new virtual personal visits program to keep prisoners in contact with family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. On 23 March, Commissioner Peter Martin AMP, on advice from Queensland Health, suspended all personal face-to-face visits to prisons in Queensland to reduce the risk of COVID-19 entering Queensland Correctional Centres. QCS fast-tracked a pilot…
We’ve been getting lots of questions about when visits will recommence at Queensland prisons. The answer isn’t a straight forward one. As you may be aware, the Queensland Government released a roadmap to the easing of community restrictions last week, and we will be using this as a framework for our prisons. But that doesn’t mean you’ll see any immediate…

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