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Criminals run riot on parole

Forty-three of NZ's most dangerous criminals have been convicted of serious violent offences committed while they were already on parole.

Roll call of New Zealand's most dangerous offenders

Fraudster: Being caught was a relief

Fraudster asked parents to pay back home loan

The ASB bank investment adviser who stole $17.8m charged his parents interest on a loan to move into a retirement home - then asked for the money back when his fraud was discovered.

Staff member verified lies over prison mishap

A Corrections staff member tried to hide his poor supervision of a yard where inmates tipped over a crane, and from where one later escaped.

Environmental group ready to defend whaling activist

Japanese lawyers are lined up to defend incarcerated anti-whaling protester Peter Bethune, but an environmental group still hopes Japanese authorities will send him home.

Jail for sale - investors face 18-year stretch

Prisoner aid group loses contract

Inmate voting bill moves on

<i>Garth George:</i> Sterilisation only a barbed band-aid fix

Lil Wayne to do his rapping behind bars for year

Rapper Lil Wayne, his lawyer Stacey Richman by his side, listened to the judge in a Manhattan criminal court sentence him yesterday to a year in jail for having a loaded gun on his tour bus.

'Unjust' bill means 11,000 per cent rise in prison time

The proposed three strikes bill would be grossly unjust and could result in an 11,000 per cent rise in time spent in prisons, an independent organisation on crime says.

Stabbing victim to leave NZ before attacker is freed

A stabbing victim is leaving the country and fears for his life because his attacker is about to be released from prison without having done any rehabilitation programme.

Kiwi jailed for sex attack in England

A New Zealand man who tried to rape a young girl after travelling to England to try to save his marriage has been sentenced to 15 and a half years in jail.

'Tell the truth or die'

Tagger goes to prison for painting spree at 22 sites

The man who knows too much

Suspect on sex charge sparks fury over e-bail