NIPS Annual Report and Accounts 2012-13 - Department of Justice

2012-2013
APPENDIX 6
DEFINITIONS
Approved or accredited activities:
Any activities and/or programmes, which have been
verified by an internal approval panel or external
accreditation body.
An assault:
When the victim has sustained an injury resulting
in his/her death, or his/her detention in an outside
hospital as an inpatient, or any of the following
injuries whether or not detained in hospital:
fractures, concussion, internal injuries, crushing,
severe cuts or lacerations, severe bruising, burns or
scalds, or severe general shock requiring medical
treatment.
Certified Normal Accommodation (CNA):
Accommodation which meets the Prison Service’s
own measurable standards for the provision of good
decent accommodation for the secure and humane
confinement of persons who have been given into
custody by the courts.
Constructive activity:
All pursuits that play a part in the enhancement
of the individual’s skills, knowledge, attitudes and
behaviour, or contribute to the reduction in the
likelihood of re-offending (and including activities
such as orderly duties, use of gym, visits, education
and attendance at court). For separated prisoners
time out of cell will count as constructive activity.
Prisoner:
Any person who has been committed to a prison or
young offenders centre by the courts.
Category A prisoner
A prisoner whose escape would be highly dangerous
to the public or the police or the security of the
state, no matter how unlikely that escape might be,
and for whom the aim of the Prison Service must be
to make escape impossible.
Category B prisoner
A prisoner for who the very highest conditions of
security are not necessary, but for who escape must
be made very difficult.
Category C prisoner
A prisoner who cannot be trusted in open
conditions, but who does not have the resources or
the will to make a determined escape attempt.
Category D prisoner
A prisoner who can be reasonably trusted in open
conditions.
Regime
The regime describes the activities, opportunities
and privileges available to prisoners on a daily basis.
Separated conditions
The regime in Maghaberry in which loyalist and
republican prisoners who are members or supporters
of proscribed organisations and who meet the other
criteria are accommodated separately.
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