Prisoners spend day locked in cells after inmate scales roof
It’s understood the prisoner climbed up scaffolding at Rolleston Prison
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NZ's prison system under scrutiny: Corrections' struggles highlighted amid calls for culture change
The Chief Ombudsman has criticised the department as he departs his job.
Con woman who killed elderly widower with steam iron shows 'worrying' behaviour
Julianna Nuku's 'entitled and demanding' ways have the Parole Board concerned.
Prisoner and Corrections officers take refuge in van after shots fired at tangi
The police said a shotgun shell was found near the inmate escort vehicle.
Prisons 'like a people storage unit' as Covid culture lingers - Ombudsman
Some prisoners were left in isolation for 23 hours a day.
Killer and child sex offender fights prison sex ban in rehabilitation unit
The convicted killer said the ban was a breach of the Homosexual Law Reform Act.
'I paid the price': MAFS groom's shock drug smuggling confession
MAFS groom speaks about double tragedy that struck while he was locked up.
Country star arrested after chair thrown off a bar roof
Morgan Wallen has been charged with three felony counts over the Nashville incident.
Impersonated and imprisoned: Man gets identity back after it was stolen 30 years ago
His scheme fell apart when he was confronted with the DNA evidence. 'My life is over.'
Prisoner held 33 days longer than his sentence loses $11k compensation
Court of Appeal issues decision after deputy registrar and judge make mistake.
'Put down': Violent inmate stomps on duck after it landed in prison yard
The prisoner was charged with attacking the bird, which had to be put down.
Cross erected on post where Head Hunter had fatal bike crash
The cross commemorating Sam Rasmussen was erected over Easter.
Letters: Filtering out the porn; why classroom behaviour is getting worse
OPINION: 'Our new Government has an opportunity to demonstrate compassion.'
Gypsy Rose Blanchard's shock news three months out of prison
Blanchard has made an announcement about her husband who she married in a prison ceremony.
Maxim New Zealand model charged with bribing a federal agent
Schwartz allegedly offered $8000 to a special agent to get her boyfriend out of prison.
Inmates and staff get food poisoning from curry at British prison
Some prisoners were slurring their words, giddy and in distress.
'Tell me I'm your boyfriend': Teen woke to armed mobster in her bedroom
Anthony Pearce, who also stabbed a man in the neck, has argued against his sentence.
Dog finds drugs hidden in sneakers at prison
Bart the dog found the drugs concealed in a pair of shoes.
'Substantial miscarriage of justice': After 40 years behind bars man claiming innocence could walk free
'A significant possibility that an innocent person has been convicted.'
Te Tai Rāwhiti, he pērā, ka whiti mai te rā - The East Coast, like that, the sun will rise
Harata Gibson calls for all groups to come together to mourn after Gisborne party deaths.
Positive outcomes are better for our community - Minister McKee
Minister wants outcome focus on rangatahi courts review.
Convicted killer of Christchurch teen appears before Parole Board
Connor Whitehead, 16, was shot dead at a party in Christchurch in 2021.
Notorious Aussie baby killer to learn release fate in ‘no body’ law test
The body of two-day-old baby Tegan has never been found.
Prisoner escape: Violent white supremacist on the loose after co-ordinated ambush
Three corrections officers were shot and wounded.
Richard Prebble: What’s causing the scandalous backlog in courts
OPINION: What we blast as 'police state' tyranny elsewhere we are doing ourselves.
'A living hell': Cellmate who starved and beat sex offender is sentenced
Rene Thomas has some unresolved issues he needs to address, a judge said.
Disabled US man makes desperate appeal days before scheduled execution
Willie James Pye, 59, is scheduled to be executed this Wednesday.
Grinning inmates who spurred manhunt after motorway escape sent back to prison
A bystander said the inmates 'looked pretty happy' as they emerged from the prison van.
Cops leaving, recruitment struggles, back office to frontline
Dozens of Kiwi police officers are waiting to take up lucrative jobs in Australia
Officials' scathing analysis of Government gang proposals
How the Ministry of Justice pushed to water down the gang crackdown proposals.
Saying young-offender boot camps will work, or won’t, misses the point
OPINION: LSV is a pathway to turn young men's lives around.
Opinion: Youth crime does not occur in a vacuum, if only because we do not live in that state
OPINION: All boot camps offer are punishment, not the context of the crime.
Double killer caught in large-scale Hells Angels drug plot committed suicide, coroner finds
The inmate used a smuggled phone to contact - unknowingly - an undercover US DEA agent.
The Government's law and order 100-day action item that required 'no actions'
The prison target wasn't just axed by Labour. It was never actioned by Corrections.