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

Our misplaced trust in the Government over our role in a far-off war has come back to haunt us.

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

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

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

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...

An autistic man wrongfully convicted of rape and jailed for more than two years was awarded more than $350,000 compensation today.

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.

A controversial new private prison opened in Auckland today.

Convicted double murderer Mark Lundy has been leaving prison for medical treatment, the Department of Corrections has confirmed today.

A violent sex offender stabbed his nephew while on bail - and was later allowed to call him repeatedly from prison in a bid to intimidate him into changing his evidence.