Bill English's musings on the prison system are welcome. His economic strategy less so.

Rimutaka prison guard Johan Clarke has been jailed in what is believed to be the first time a corrections officer has been convicted of corruption charges.

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.

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

A Hastings man who sent a "malicious" letter to the mother-in-law of slain Feilding farmer Scott Guy has been convicted for wasting police time.

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.

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.

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.