One of New Zealand's most high-profile criminals is heading back to the Parole Board next week in a bid to get an early release from prison.

New figures show that almost 250 offenders removed their electronically monitored trackers during the 2015/16 year.

Port Ahuriri Playcentre has stunning new carvings for the kids to enjoy. But they're not from a gallery or marae, they're from prison. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

COMMENT: Crime does not pay, as the old adage goes. That may or may not be true, but what is absolutely without question is that crime costs.

The Herald has learned that six guards were injured in an attack at New Zealand's toughest prison, with three suffering stab wounds to their heads.

Assaults on prison guards by inmates have increased by more than 100 in the last year.

A prison guard hospitalised after an attack at Paremoremo has been discharged.

Three members of staff at the Paremoremo Prison required medical treatment after being assaulted by a group of prisoners.

Corrections Minister Judith Collins said prison population growth required a further 1800 places.

Prisoners could walk free today and Corrections Minister Judith Collins will be briefed on the fall-out from the miscalculation of parole and release dates.

Maori are twice as likely to go to jail than Pakeha when convicted of assault.

The changes aim to identify women at risk of family violence early in their prison sentences so appropriate support can be organised.

One of the country's most brutal killers has been moved into a high risk unit following an incident at prison involving an "improvised weapon".

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.

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.

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.