Corrections is defending its decision to place two high-risk sex offenders in a Hamilton boarding house where young kids were living.

Family with two girls told to play on other side of their house after paedophile was moved in next door, Labour MP says.

An investigation into allegations of 'fight clubs' at Mt Eden Corrections Facility was fair and the resulting report without error, a High Court judge has found.

COMMENT: The Corrections Department should spend time and effort in recruiting more persons such as Ngapari Nui to be kaiwhakamana in the prisons.

Security reinforcements were put on stand-by and Mount Eden prison locked-down after disorder involving a group of up to 50 prisoners.

Inmates at an Auckland prison were put in lockdown for 48 hours after obstructing corrections officers and disobeying orders.

Criticism mounts after Corrections placed one of New Zealand's worst sex offenders just metres from a school and failed to inform them.

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.

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.

Corrections Minister Judith Collins says prison officers who were caught posting about an inmate on social media had let the department down.

A Wellington probation centre is making their staff feel safer with added security that includes panic alarms to alert police.

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.

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.

Judith Collins' return to John Key's Cabinet is a credit to her. It would have been easy for someone of her temperament to have reacted differently to her dismissal.

Reinstated Cabinet minister Judith Collins says a year on the backbench has given her more confidence and she is looking forward to sorting out the Serco debacle as the new Corrections Minister.

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.