Planning Your Release - NSW Exit Checklist

This booklet is designed to help you plan for your release. In it you will find a lot of information on things you can do to make the move out of custody and back to the community a bit easier for yourself and your family.

The checklist is designed for you to go through with a Welfare Officer or Services and Programs Officer or other staff at your correctional centre. You can write their names in the inside cover. Ask to use their phones to make calls regarding your release.

The checklist sets out what you need to do:

• Do this now
• three months before release
• four weeks before release
• one week before release, and
• on the day of release.

Answer each question in turn. If you answer ‘yes,’ tick the box. No more action is needed; simply go on to the next question. If you answer ‘no,’ what you need to do is set out below the question.