Susan Couch would have been banned from suing the Probation Service under legislation which will give negligent public servants immunity from civil lawsuits.

A murderer serving a life sentence is not ready to be released says the Parole Board. But because he is a mental health patient, he has already been out into the community.

Editorial: Some policies aimed at quenching what politicians perceive to be a public appetite for fairness are recycled regularly even when they have been shown to be deeply flawed.

The sole survivor of an attack at an Auckland Returned and Services Association in which three people were murdered is poised to get a payout from the Corrections Department.

Dangerous repeat violent offenders and sex offenders could be monitored for the rest of their lives after release from prison, says minister Anne Tolley.

There were two wrongful releases and one wrongful imprisonment in the eight months since the Mt Eden Corrections Facility was handed over to private prison operators Serco, a Corrections Department report shows.