A prison inspector has rebuked jailers for advising inmates to relieve themselves on vehicle floors.

A Hamilton woman's attempt to help out a prisoner in need of new underpants failed after authorities rejected the garments because of their colour scheme.

Prisoners at Auckland's new $300 million private men's jail could be building or fixing metal skip bins.

Charles Bronson, Britain's most violent prisoner, has reportedly been transferred back to the UK's toughest jail after he covered himself in butter and fought 12 wardens.

A surprise midweek visit from New Zealand Rugby League football manager Tony Iro has given the Paremoremo Prison league team a boost.

A 29-year-old inmate is in a stable condition after a stabbing at Spring Hill Prison.

Works by 12 prisoners are on show in Wanganui's Davis Central City Library this month, in an exhibition themed Aotearoa - Our Land, Our People.

A Victorian prisoner mistakenly released from jail was free for six months before he was arrested and returned to custody.

A prison guard who harboured a bailed paedophile at his home, and then charged the offender's ex-wife $18,300 in back rent has quit after an urgent investigation.

Three Otago Correction Facility officers were assaulted by an inmate yesterday morning.

'Help, help, help', started the note found by a shopper buying boots from a New York department store, from a man claiming to be held in a Chinese prison factory.

Criminals are being given free mobile phones in a bid to stop them reoffending when they get out of jail, in a pilot scheme at the privately-run Mt Eden Correctional Facility in Auckland.

A Japanese court has decided to release a man who was sentenced to death in 1980 in a high-profile murder case based on new DNA evidence.

As the Crown's balance sheet approaches a quarter of a trillion dollars, managing those assets and the risks is becoming more important, says the Treasury.

About 600 construction workers are on the 17ha site of New Zealand's biggest new prison and the country's largest public-private partnership, which is recruiting staff now.

The secret prison within a prison at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre that houses several alleged terrorists - is falling apart.

The shortage of traditional death drugs isn't necessarily great news for anyone on death row, writes Jack Tame.

An ex-girlfriend of a jailed rapist is furious he was able to stalk her from prison, and also arrange for another prisoner to carry on the surveillance.

New Zealand's prison population continues to grow despite record-low crime rates and an ambitious Government strategy to cut reoffending.

In the course of 2013, I encountered two memorable examples of things that are wrong, that need to be put right and probably won't be.

Offenders who get locked up for Christmas can forget about a special meal from the cops on the big day.

Prisoners will not be able to have more than three pieces of fruit a day in NZ jails, after a major riot was found to have been caused by inmates who were drunk on home-brewed alcohol.