Australian Psychology Board Reprimands Psychologist Melanya Polata for Flirtatious Conduct with Inmate

September 19, 2024

A former prison psychologist has been reprimanded for professional misconduct after her flirty conversations with a maximum-security inmate emerged.

The details of Melanya Polata's conduct with the male inmate in an unnamed Queensland prison were revealed in a judgement made by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) on Tuesday.

Judge Geraldine Dann, the QCAT deputy president, said Ms Polata's comments to the inmate were 'well short' of how a psychologist should behave with an inmate, in the referral action brought by the Psychology Board of Australia.

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