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<i>Nick Smith</i>: Pipe dreams not just for potheads
Bill English's musings on the prison system are welcome. His economic strategy less so.

Prisons trial carrots as alternative to cigarettes
Prison inmates are being given carrots as an alternative to cigarettes to help them break the tobacco habit.

Tracey Barnett: Watch out for our leaders and their tall tales of war
Our misplaced trust in the Government over our role in a far-off war has come back to haunt us.

Watch: Comancheros perform haka behind bars
Members of the Comancheros Motorcycle Club filmed themselves doing a haka from a 'supermax facility'. Video / Comancheros MC NZ via YouTube

Drug ring's prison headquarters
A huge drugs case revealed how easy it was for inmates at Paremoremo to combine their skills and contacts to import pseudoephedrine to make P - all from behind bars

Security forces scramble to find Taleban escapees
Nato and Afghan security forces are trying desperately to round up some of the 475 escaped Taleban prisoners.

Guard's plea: Keep 'evil' Gillies jailed
A prison officer who had known 'evil and nasty' career criminal John Gillies for 10 years sent an email to the Department of Corrections begging for him not to be released. Gillies will be released next month...

Wrongly jailed man 'set up' - mother
An autistic man wrongfully convicted of rape and jailed for more than two years was awarded more than $350,000 compensation today.

Convicted killer wins appeal hearing on jail term
Convicted murderer Joseph Martin Reekers has won another hearing after appealing his 15-year non-parole sentence for killing Auckland hairdresser Marie Jamieson 10 years ago.

Boy, 14, caught trying to bring cannabis into prison
Prison authorities have caught out a 14-year-old boy who tried to take cannabis hidden in his shoe into Hawke's Bay Regional Prison.