COVID-19: Prisons suspend social visits
Carla Velasquez • March 18, 2020
Social visits suspended from 17 March 2020 - 22 March 2020
Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW) announced today that all personal visits to inmates in custody in New South Wales are to be suspended until 22 March 2020 (inclusive).
The temporary suspension will allow CSNSW to implement additional processes and procedures for visitor health-screenings to ensure the health safety of staff, inmates and members of the community by minimising all potential cases of COVID-19 in the prisons.
At this stage there are no reports of confirmed cases of COVID-19 within any of the correctional facilities in New South Wales at this stage. Inmates and staff have been advised to take extra care with handwashing and hygiene. The CSNSW memorandum indicates that they have long-standing safety practices in place to prevent and control infections and communicable diseases in prisons.
For more information visit: Corrective Services
