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New Zealand: 'history repeats' for former state wards in prison
Contracts for the Improving Mental Health Service is due to end from June 2025. Mental health workers fear some imprisoned people who are suicidal, psychotic or suffering other serious psychological problems will be left without support when their contracts end.New Zealand: corrections incapable of rehabilitating imprisoned people, critics say
Prison reform advocates say the Corrections department is unable to deliver effective rehabilitation for imprisoned people. In the last financial year, Corrections spent $376 million on rehabilitation - but most of the programmes it ran reduced reoffending by less than 2 percent.
New Zealand: Public-private partnership prison to experience same problems when taken over by government
PARLIAMENTARIANS heard that the two public-private partnerships (PPP) prisons would be subjected to the same condition experienced at other prisons when the Department of Correctional Services takes them over in a few years.Nouvelle-Zélande: une prison entièrement détruite après six jours d’émeutes
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New Zealand: Auckland prisoners confined to cells for up to 29 hours at a time
Women at an Auckland prison have been routinely confined to their cells for periods of up to 29 hours at a stretch - well outside the law, which says they should get at least one hour out of their cells a day. RNZ took evidence of the lockdown hours including a recently released prisoner’s diary, t…New Zealand: prison-grown fresh veggies feeding families in need
Fresh vegetables can be expensive at Christmas time, but needy Auckland families will be able to get some for free this year courtesy of New Zealand’s toughest prison. Boxes filled with fresh prison-grown veggies have been donated to the Salvation Army to distribute among families and individuals.New Zealand: measles lockdown - prisoners isolated, babies quarantined over fears disease has hit women's prison
Prisoners have been isolated and babies put into quarantine at Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility over fears of a measles outbreak. On Tuesday night, Corrections informed Newshub there were concerns three female prisoners had been exposed to measles. They will remain isolated until their…