Department of Corrections
Topics
- Mt Eden prison inmate deathQuiet since 16 Dec 2025
- Run It Straight collision sport controversyQuiet since 30 Jun 2025
- Senior doctors' pay dispute and strikesQuiet since 17 Oct 2025
- Christchurch stalking murder caseQuiet since 17 Dec 2025
- Sylvia Park police shootingQuiet since 20 Aug
All stories
October 2026
August 2026
- Prisoner arrested after fleeing Dunedin Airport following missed flight
- Police investigation continues after man shot dead at Sylvia Park
December 2025
- Corrections chief ordered to ensure prisoners receive daily exercise
- Coroner criticises Corrections over delayed response to prisoner's emergency call
- Sex offender handed five-year supervision order by High Court
- Homicide investigation launched after Mt Eden prisoner dies
- Homicide investigation launched after Mt Eden prison inmate dies
November 2025
October 2025
- Senior doctors and dentists to participate in October strike
+2 - Footage of Auckland prison guard falling from railing removed online
September 2025
- UN torture prevention committee visits New Zealand prisons
- Plans for Waikite Valley parole facility have been scrapped
- Police investigate unexplained death of man at Hawke’s Bay prison
August 2025
- Sex offender Eric Baker breached supervision order 14 times
- Remand prisoner climbs roof at Otago Corrections Facility
- Prisoner in critical condition after alleged assault at Auckland Prison
- Lockdown ends at Spring Hill prison after inmates lit fires+1
July 2025
- At-risk Invercargill prisoners continue to be placed in dry cells
- Child sex offender jailed for kidnapping and grooming a girl
- Man recaptured after escaping Corrections custody in Hastings
- New taskforce launched to tackle corruption in the public service
- Child sex offender seeks apology and $575,000 in damages
- Man charged with murder following inmate death at Mt Eden prison
June 2025
- Police investigate homicide after prisoner dies at Mt Eden prison+1
- Twenty-three properties near Christchurch prison cannot use bore water
- New 596-bed facility opens at Waikeria Prison
May 2025
- Fighter at unregulated backyard brawl event referred to police+1
- Rotorua council notifies public of Pūwhakamua consent application
March 2025
- Proposed Corrections changes could result in 49 job losses
- Man charged with murder in Gisborne brawl dies while on bail+2
- Gangs exert significant informal control inside New Zealand prisons
- Prisoner dies and another is stabbed at Auckland Prison
February 2025
January 2025
- Former Dilworth teacher and sex offender dies after compassionate release
- Corrections staff member resigns after two prisoner escapes+3
- Man facing indecent assault charges at Upper Hutt facility
- Prisoner seriously injured in Spring Hill Corrections Facility cell fire
- Prisoner arrested after escaping from Waikato Hospital+3