More than 200 cellphones have been seized each year in prisons since jamming technology was put in place to stop inmates from illicitly contacting the outside world.

Apart from the claustrophobia of being imprisoned in a cell, I imagine the worst thing about being incarcerated would be the stultifying boredom.

Editorial: Some policies aimed at quenching what politicians perceive to be a public appetite for fairness are recycled regularly even when they have been shown to be deeply flawed.

Up to 1400 inmates will be working 40 hours a week - without pay - by the end of this year as part of a plan to create more "working prisons" in New Zealand.

A dangerous high-security prisoner who killed a Corrections officer has pleaded guilty to assaulting two more.

A love story that began at a murder trial drew to a poignant close this week.

New Zealand's most notorious prison escaper has smashed up a new high-tech cell built at great expense to contain our most dangerous criminals.

Authorities are negotiating with two prisoners who are refusing to come down from the roof of Manawatu Prison after spending the night under the stars.

Prison officers were justified in restraining an inmate after a struggle described as a "seething mass of humanity", a coroner's inquest has found.

Prison bosses have admitted that they expected riots when they banned smoking in jails last year.

A woman visiting her partner in prison was trapped inside for more than three hours despite screaming out for guards and throwing a chair at a window to get their attention.

A dangerous prisoner who killed a guard is being investigated for two separate assaults on Corrections officers within two weeks.

A Hawke's Bay prison officer was hospitalised yesterday after being attacked by an inmate, and the incident is now being investigated by police.