Sentence Management Manual

The Sentence Management Manual gives guidance on sentence management procedures. The Manual has four sections:

1. Assessment and classification
2. Prisoner management
3. Prison transfers
4. Information management

Scroll down for a full list of items that are available to the public under each topic.

Access: the Sentence Management Manual is a public document and is available on the Corrections Victoria website. You can request access to the Manual from prison staff or see if it’s available in your prison library.

Assessment and Classification

AC 1 – Level of Service (LS) Assessment Tools

AC 2 – Sentence Management Panels

AC 3 – Determining Security Ratings

AC 4 – Determining a Prisoner’s Placement

AC 5 – Developing a Sentence Plan

AC 6 – Prisoners Requiring Protection

AC 7 – Special Category Prisoners

AC 8 – Major Offenders

AC 9 – High Security Escort

AC10 – Detention Order Offenders

Prisoner Management

PM 1 – Case Management Review Committees

PM 3 – Separation Regimes

PM 4 – Long Term Management Placement

PM 5 – Incentive Based Regimes

PM 6 – Intermediate Regimes

Prisoner Transfers

PT 1 – Inter-prison and Police/ Court Transfers

PT 2 – Receptions from Victoria Police

PT 3 – Youth Justice Transfers

PT 4 – Mental Health Transfers

PT 5 – Transfer of Prisoners with an Intellectual Disability

PT 6 – Interstate Prisoner Transfers

PT 7 – International Prisoner Transfers

Information Management

IM 1 – Individual Management Files

IM 2 – Record Keeping

IM 3 – Information Sharing

IM 4 – Sentence Calculation & Warrant Administration (was Central Prisoner Records)