
Quake repairs 'painfully slow'
The rate of repairs to earthquake-damaged Housing New Zealand homes in Christchurch has been slammed for being "painfully slow".
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.
Police investigations into the death of an Otago remand prisoner have been stepped up following the involvement of New Zealand's police watchdog in the case.
A group of inmates are stonewalling a police investigation into a near-fatal stabbing at Paremoremo Prison.
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.
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.
About 100 inmates have been relocated to other prisons as abandoned cell blocks of the Spring Hill jail where rioters caused chaos yesterday are investigated.
Gang tensions are believed to have sparked the on-going prison riot at Spring Hill jail south of Auckland, where inmates are setting fires and damaging cells.