Inmates moving through the country's new $300 million prison will be able to track their path to freedom.

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

The rate of repairs to earthquake-damaged Housing New Zealand homes in Christchurch has been slammed for being "painfully slow".

No building in Auckland is quite as grim as Mt Eden Prison.

A building expert has expressed concerns about Auckland's historic Mt Eden Prison being empty.

Prison officers allegedly used "ghosting" to alter records after an inmate's death to state they had checked on prisoners more often than they had.

A psychologist has been banned from treating prison inmates and told her contact with them was "inappropriate".

On the table at Rimutaka Prison last week was lamb fillet with duck liver pate, caramelised potatoes and vegetables in an oxtail jus.

Prisons with Maori Focus Units are changing they way they work, offering more time between prisoners and their families in a bid to cut reoffending.

Damian came to prison when he was barely into his teens - he's doing life and it will be years before he'll come up for parole.

Hinewirangi Kohu-Morgan is a boss inside Waikeria Prison. She's a Maori woman teaching Maori men how to be men.

New rental televisions for prisoners are one step in a long-term plan to have inmates manage their lives from their cell.

The Department of Corrections is facing a backlash after introducing random drug and alcohol testing for prison guards.

A justice reform group is calling for 17-year-old offenders to be dealt with by the youth justice system rather than the adult criminal courts.

Questions have been raised about the culture of Sercos, after serious fraud allegations were laid against its headquarters in the UK.

Corrections Minister Anne Tolley has called a successful court challenge against smoking bans in prisons a "waste of time" because the Government has already changed the law to justify the bans.

Images from inside the military prison at Guantanamo Bay give an insight into the heavy-handed tactics the United States is using to force-feed prisoners.

A child sex offender was paid $26,600 in compensation by the taxpayer under a scheme which has awarded more than $500,000 to prisoners since it came into effect in 2005.

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.

Officers confronted by 29 rioting inmates at the Spring Hill prison would have been overwhelmed if they tried to use pepper spray, a prison boss says.