A "high-risk" sex offender has been placed just metres from a large Auckland school by Corrections.

Corrections will get an extra $355 million over four years to help cope with a growing prison population while Police will close to $300 million in new operating funding.

Corrections has banned an Auckland boarding house from homing offenders after residents are accused of all-day parties, vandalism and verbally abusing.

Kiwis have rallied behind a Filipino family's legal bid for justice, for their much loved mother, grandmother and wife, to raise more than $50,000.

Exclusive: Blessie Gotingco was raped and murdered on May 24, 2014. Today, for the first time, her husband of 30 years, Antonio, speaks about her life and loves - and her death.

Blessie Gotingco's family are considering filing a civil case against the Department of Corrections for wrongful death - and are calling on all New Zealanders to help them.

Children visiting their mothers will enjoy face painting, crafts and movies at Wellington Prison on Sunday.

Prisoners allegedly drunk on homebrew attacked staff at the Serco-run Wiri prison on Saturday, and a wing has been in lockdown as a result.

A probation officer is suing his bosses for secretly removing safety warnings from a report after the inmate then attacked a man just months after being released.

Serco has agreed to pay $8 million to Corrections after the department stepped in last July to manage the Mt Eden Corrections facility.

The Government has charged Serco $8 million to cover the costs of resuming control of Mt Eden Corrections Facility last year.

Criminals deported from Australia have been arriving here at the rate of more than one a day since a law managing their return was passed last year.

The Corrections Department is standing by a highly critical report of violence within Mt Eden Corrections Facility.

The Corrections Department has told its new minister Judith Collins that it is struggling to understand why reoffending continues to rise in New Zealand.

Corrections Minister Judith Collins has strongly rejected a judge's claim that the Government is trying to keep offenders out of jail.

Corrections is investigating claims against inmates giving sexual favors and a Correction's employee handing over $14k a month for marijuana.

Speculation is rife the Prime Minister will bring back former cabinet minister to sort out mess at Corrections.

Corrections Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga has defended the past ranking of privately run Mt Eden Prison as the best in the country, saying it was based on its record at the time.

Reprimand after prison worker says he doesn't like term 'inmates'.

The company's initial training course had been deliberately structured to tick the legal boxes needed to get new employees into prison and working.

A prisoner who raped a woman while on a Release to Work programme has been sentenced.

A cross-party letter to the Australian PM condemning his country's treatment of Kiwis detained on Christmas Island is to be presented in Sydney today.

Among young offenders, the rate of reconviction within five years after release is 91 per cent, much of which happens within the first 12 to 24 months, writes Jarrod Gilbert.

A change to the rules which give media access to prison inmates is being considered.

A prisoner has raped a woman while on a release to work programme, sparking a major internal probe by Corrections.

The alleged rape of a transgender inmate has Corrections signaling a possible change to the way the prison system deals with those identifying as a different gender.

A prisoner has died after a day on life support following a self-harm incident in Mt Eden prison, the Herald has learned.

The transgender community says the inmate is not getting enough support and needs better protection.