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.

A prisoner has died at Auckland's Paremoremo Prison. A coroner's inquest will be carried out, and Corrections will also investigate.

An inmate with more than 100 convictions was taken to North Shore Hospital after allegedly hiding drugs and a mobile phone in his rectum.

A two-year-old boy is dead after being run over by a 1.5-tonne roller yesterday at his home.

Auckland Prison's maximum security wing is to be completely rebuilt under a Public Private Partnership (PPP).

The father of a Spring Hill Prison inmate says last weekend's riots were sparked by a fracas between the 19-year-old and guards after they caught him with home brew.

One of three prison inmates on trial for the murder of another prisoner at a maximum security jail has admitted the killing and claims his co-accused were not involved.

Emma Williamson returned to Paremoremo, on the outskirts of rural Albany, with her husband Ray Nicholls and sons Louis, 13 and Patrick, 12, from London eight years ago. She tells Catherine Smith why the family loves living in the area.

George Baker is an evil man and should only be let out of prison in a coffin, says the father of the teenager he killed four years ago.

A convicted murderer who stabbed Auckland RSA triple-killer William Bell in the eye has avoided an indefinite prison sentence.

The man convicted of killing teenager Liam Ashley four years ago has been found guilty of kidnapping, threatening to kill and assault with an offensive weapon.

Judith Collins says she was concerned a knife was found in convicted double murderer Graeme Burton's cell but that search management has already been tightened because of the incident.