The Corrections Minister has announced a "robust and thorough" review over footage of inmates engaging in banned behaviour in New Zealand prisons.

"They are just locked up and that's that. What about their wellbeing and safety? They are still human beings."

Videos revealing an inmate “fight club” must be investigated independently at once, the Corrections Association president says.

Inmates at an Auckland prison are holding organised fights, filming them on contraband mobile phones and uploading the footage to the internet.

A grandmother-of-seven can finally fill in forms without her daughter's help, thanks to a volunteer literacy programme at the Auckland women's prison.

Wearable cameras for prison guards could bring down the number of assaults behind bars, Corrections Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga says.

New wearable cameras and stab-resistant body armour will be introduced for prison guards, the Corrections Minister announced today.

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.

Photos of the opening of the new Auckland South Corrections Facility in Manukau, by Dean Purcell.

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

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.

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.

Prison beatings happen in New Zealand almost daily and only "good luck" stands in the way of more deaths.

Three men have been charged with murder after a prison inmate they allegedly attacked died on Monday.

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.