Corrections

The Office of the Inspectorate has released the first inspection report for the Department of Corrections’ Prisoners of Extreme Risk Unit.

With inmates trapped in their cells and the flames approaching, one prison staffer predicted they would be "dragging bodies out."

It raised more questions than it gave answers, - with Luxon and Mitchell at times contradicting one another.

The service will enable men who have finished serving a prison sentence or are...

From prison to the straight and narrow

A new report from the University of Auckland has found that Māori prisoners are almost twice as likely to experience unstable housing after release as non-Māori prisoners.

Kelvin Davis, the Minister for Children and Corrections, has defended plans to put 12 and 13 year olds through the criminal justice system for ram raids.

A Māori youth mentor believes that for the government's new intense programme for the worst youth offenders in the nation to be successful, poverty must be addressed.

The transfer of female inmates from Wellington to Christchurch has been met by criticism by the High Court.