Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 6 · Home Detention Scheme
53. Eligibility for home detention
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A prisoner is eligible to be released for home detention under section 52 if —
prisoner
“prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison or reformative training centre or subject to an external placement order or a home detention order, but does not include a person released and at large under a remission order;
the prisoner is serving a sentence of imprisonment for a term of not less than 4 weeks or any other period that the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe in substitution thereof;
the prisoner has served not less than 14 days of his or her sentence of imprisonment or any other period that the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe in substitution thereof; and
the prisoner is not a prisoner specified under the Second Schedule as being disqualified from being released for home detention under section 52.
The disqualification of a prisoner under subsection (1)(c) may be removed by the Minister if the Minister considers that the prisoner is deserving of home detention, having regard to the circumstances of the case, including the following factors:
home detention
“home detention”, in relation to a prisoner, means the serving by the prisoner of a sentence of imprisonment in any place or places, outside the limits of any prison, that may be specified in the home detention order;
the prisoner’s progress and response to rehabilitation in prison;
the prisoner’s family support;
the risk of recidivism by the prisoner.
For the purpose of subsection (1)(a), the total consecutive periods of imprisonment of whatever nature is treated as one sentence.