Starting your sentence

What this chapter covers

• Before your sentence starts
  When you can be held in prison before you’ve been sentenced and calling whnau before you go in
• Calculating your sentence
  Concurrent and cumulative sentences and what counts toward your sentence
• Which prison?
  Being transferred during your sentence
• Arriving at prison
  What you can take with you and the process when you arrive including health checks
• Where you’ll be housed in prison
  Looking at your health needs, age and security classification and sharing a cell
• Mother with Babies Units
• Te Tirohanga Units
  Applying to placed in a Te Tirohanga Unit
• Transgender and non-binary people
  Your rights to have your gender respected
• Minimum entitlements
  What things you must have access to like food, bedding and visitors, and when these can be taken away
• Pandemics and emergencies
  Balancing safety and your minimum entitlements
• The prison staff assigned to you and your management plan
  Developing a “management plan” and your case manager
• Your property: What you’re allowed to have in prison
  Bringing things in, how to claim for damaged or lost property, laundry, and what the prison will provide you with
• Money: Using you P119 prisoner trust account
  How to put money into your p119, and what you can use it for