Catch me if you can - escaper's taunt to police
An Auckland Prison inmate left police a taunting note on a concrete slab before cutting his way through a steel perimeter fence to freedom.
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Search continues for missing prisoner
Up to 20 police, some of them armed, are searching the area around Auckland Prison at Paremoremo after an inmate cut his way through a double perimeter fence and escaped today.
Prisoner still on the run, investigation launched
The Corrections Department is investigating how an inmate escaped Auckland Prison by breaking through a perimeter fence in the jail workshop.
Prisoner tells court inmate dragged from cell 'black as'
A prison inmate has described seeing a fellow inmate being dragged from a cell on the day of his death.
Graeme Burton guilty of attempted murder
A jury finds double-killer Graeme Burton guilty of attempting to murder a fellow prison inmate.
Burton used steel rod to stab inmate's heart, court told
Graeme Burton used a sharpened stainless steel rod to stab a prison inmate three times in the heart, the High Court hears.
Hostage drama ends, lawyer blames 'episodes'
Convicted murderer George Baker has released a fellow prisoner who he took hostage yesterday.
Hostage taker among New Zealand's worst
George Baker (above left) murdered Liam Ashley (above right) in the back of a prison van three years ago. Police and prison officials are now trying to prevent another tragedy, after Baker took a hostage at Auckland Prison this afternoon.