A string of inquiries is under way into how a healthy 25-year-old inmate died after a five-hour journey between prisons.

A prisoner has won the right to have kosher food, including beef noodles, ribena and protein powder, delivered to his cell, after taking his case to the Human Rights Review Tribunal.

Trailblazing legal crusader Dame Silvia Cartwright speaks candidly to David Fisher about longer jail sentences, child poverty and the strain of being Governor-General.

Michael October is not a rapist and murderer but he carries that stigma with him every day of his life, writes Jarrod Gilbert.

Children with parents in prison are more likely to have poorer health, education and social lives than other children, a newly released research publication has found.

If we are to reduce reoffending, and thereby create fewer victims, crime must often be viewed not as the problem but as a symptom of a problem, writes Jarrod Gilbert.

John Ericson, who struck his wife Sandra with a tomahawk 22 times while she slept, says he can't get the counselling he needs to be released on parole.

Auckland Prison has apologised to its neighbours at Paremoremo for an overflowing sewer that has caused a stench sporadically for years.

Prisoners at New Zealand's newest jail will get tablet computers, as well as in-cell desktop screens, if they enrol in Open Polytechnic courses.

From the moment the first prisoner walks into New Zealand's newest jail at Wiri this month, prison staff will start planning for his release.

Cells in all New Zealand jails may soon be fitted out with phones and computers in a bid to boost prisoners' educational levels.

All frontline Corrections officers are to get new lightweight stab-resistant body armour, in a move that comes after the death of an inmate at Christchurch Men's Prison.

The deaths of vulnerable people who are in state care or custody could have less independent scrutiny if proposed law changes go ahead.

A prison guard bashed by an inmate at Waikeria Prison suffered a broken nose and three fractures to his eye socket.

Three men have appeared in court today charged with murdering a prisoner at a Christchurch jail.

A prisoner at a Christchurch jail has appeared in court today accused of assaulting a fellow inmate, just days after fatal gang bashing and amidst fears of spiralling revenge violence.

The suspected murder of a Christchurch prisoner in his jail cell is the eighth case in two decades, but one expert fears that gang revenge could "snowball" out of control.

An Auckland teen charged with murder, who allegedly escaped bail and evaded authorities for four days, will remain behind bars.

Teenage murder accused Beauen Wallace-Loretz has set up a social media profile to answer questions about his alleged role in an Epsom motel death, claiming online: "I ain't no killer".

Teenage murder accused Beauen Wallace-Loretz is now back in custody after he was found by police in the Auckland region this afternoon.

Teenage murder accused Beauen Wallace-Loretz remains on the run for a fifth day after disconnecting his electronic monitoring anklet.

Murder accused teen on the run after disconnecting his electronic monitoring anklet was terrified he would be returned to prison, a family friend has revealed.

Just days after being freed from an Egyptian prison, Australian journalist Peter Greste says he'd like to return to work as a foreign correspondent.

An Al-Jazeera reporter who spent more than a year in an Egyptian prison returned home to Australia, where he was greeted by friends and relieved family members

Arthur Taylor, whose name never appears in the media without the words "career criminal" shackled to the front of it, has been banged up since 2005 in the maximum security wing of Auckland Prison at Paremoremo.

Australian journalist Peter Greste has revealed it was traumatic leaving his colleagues behind in a Cairo prison and he didn't truly believe he was being freed until he was seated on a plane bound for Cyprus.

Police stations have become "mini prisons" because of an unexpected overflow of inmates and a senior police officer fears frontline staff may be pulled from their duties to help man the cells.