Queensland law amendments to stop prisoners contacting victims PRISONERS will no longer be able to communicate with their victims from behind bars, murderers who interfere with corpses will face more jail time, and litigants will find it easier to launch a class action in Queensland under a raft of changes introduced into State Parliament today. Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie said the Bill amended more than 30 Acts and included a new tough offence for drug dealers who supplied narcotics that later kill their customer, as revealed by The Courier-Mail today. OPINION: When the law fails, get Jarrod Bleijie Other changes include preventing a criminal from being able to seek damages as a result of an injury they sustained while committing a crime. "The amendments will strengthen and provide greater certainty in the operation of the current exclusion and are aimed at ensuring that criminals who commit serious offences cannot benefit from their criminal conduct," Mr Bleijie told the House. He also moved to change Section 236 of the Criminal Code to increase the maximum penalty from two to five years" imprisonment for those who interfered with a corpse. "The increased penalty recognises that when a deceased's body is mistreated it can cause substantial further distress to the deceased's family and may destroy, weaken or contaminate any evidence the body may reveal in terms of the cause of death or the identity of the killer," Mr Bleijie said. He said changes to the Corrective Services Act 2006 were designed to prevent prisoners sending inappropriate and unwanted correspondence to victims. "This will operate so that it is an offence for a prisoner to send, or attempt to send, correspondence to a victim when the prisoner knows, or ought reasonable to know, that the correspondence contains material that is distressing or traumatic for the victim," Mr Bleijie said. A maximum penalty of six months imprisonment will apply. The purpose of the offence is to strengthen protections for victims. The Attorney-General also moved to change the Coroner's Act following the pleas of a central Queensland father who lost his son in a workplace accident, to ensure an inquest could go ahead if the a person who may have been responsible for the death is charged with a summary offence. "This amendment will improve the timeliness of coronial inquires where an accused has been charged with a summary offence in which the question of whether the accused caused the death is in issue and the offence charged is relevant to the coronial inquiry," Mr Bleijie said. Michael Garrels has lobbied for the changes following the death of his 21-year-old son Jason, who was electrocuted in a workplace accident at Clermont in central Queensland in 2012. The Bill is expected to be debated by State Parliament in the new year.