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accommodation on release is top of the list. Historically, reintegration has been difficult partly because the
Department funds only two halfway houses with a total of 28 beds in the whole country – Salisbury Street Trust in Christchurch and Moana House in Dunedin (co-funded by the Ministry of Health). Less than 1% of the 9,000 prisoners released each year go into them, compared with Canada where 60% of federal prisoners are released into halfway houses. There are no halfway houses funded by Corrections in the North Island where the bulk of prisoners are held. There are no halfway houses for women funded by Corrections anywhere in the country.
447:, who replaced Byers, had formerly been Deputy Commissioner of Police in New Zealand and the Commissioner of the Western Australian Police Force. He served as chief executive of Corrections for five years from 2005 to 2010 and, in a farewell interview, listed his top three achievements as the implementation of cell phone blocking technology in prisons, better enforcement by the Probation Service of sentence compliance, and the establishment of the Professional Standards Unit to investigate corruption by prison officers.
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395:, and rehabilitation and reintegration and each arm used to have separate internal processes, infrastructure and support staff. As of May 2012 the newly appointed chief executive, Ray Smith proposed merging the three service arms into one team. Smith said the segregated infrastructure "creates replication of work, is inefficient and has resulted in an overly layered structure."
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governments have responded by establishing additional Drug
Treatment Units (DTU's) within the prison system. By 2011, this increased the number of prisoners able to attend drug treatment to 1,000 a year. This represents only 5% of the more than 20,000 people who spend time in prison each year. In 2023, the six month drug treatment program reduced reoffending by only 1.9%.
197:) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with managing the New Zealand corrections system. This includes the operations of the 18 prisons in New Zealand and services run by Probation. Corrections' role and functions were defined and clarified with the passing of the Corrections Act 2004. In early 2006, Corrections officially adopted the Māori name
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Zealand's resident population. The cost of keeping a person in prison for 12 months is estimated at around $ 150,000. In 2001 the department estimated that a lifetime of offending by one person costs victims and taxpayers $ 3 million.
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evaluation found it appeared to increase the likelihood of re-offending rather than reducing it. The
Department replaced Straight Thinking with the Medium Intensity Rehabilitation Programme (MIRP). In 2011, an evaluation of the MIRP found that two years after completing this programme, the reduction in recidivism was zero per cent.
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A study in 2015 found that about 90% of prisoners had been diagnosed with a mental health or substance abuse disorder during their lifetime. The rate of substance use disordes among prisoners is 13 times higher than the general population. Female prisoners were even more likely to be diagnosed with a
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Department's rehabilitation programmes is undermined by inadequate support when prisoners are released. To assist with reintegration, the Department has identified seven issues or 'reintegration needs' faced by prisoners on their return to the community; the need for suitable
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In 2000, a rehabilitation approach based on enhanced computerised access to information about offenders was tried. The new chief executive of the department, Mark Byers, introduced a $ 40 million scheme designed to reduce reoffending called
Integrated Offender Management System (IOMS). At the time it
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expressed concerns that government spending was "led by a rapidly expanding prison system which would soon make
Corrections the government's biggest department". As at December 2011, New Zealand had 20 prisons and the department employed over 8,000 staff. The department's operating budget is over $ 1
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six months after he was released on parole; and the
Auditor General's critical report on the Probation Service's management of parolees. Matthews exacerbated speculation about his leadership during the Burton debacle when he claimed: "There's no blood on my hands". After the Auditor General's report
361:(ACM) in 2000. In 2004, the Labour government, opposed to privatisation, amended the law to prohibit the extension of private prison contracts. A year later, the 5-year contract with ACM was not renewed. In 2010, the National government again introduced private prisons and international conglomerate
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The prison population is very fluid and altogether about 20,000 people spend time in prison each year, the vast majority on remand. Nearly 75% of those given a prison sentence are sentenced to two years or less, and all these are automatically released halfway through their sentence. As 30 September
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In April 2015, a 44-year-old inmate, Benton Parata, died in
Christchurch Men's Prison after being bashed by three other prisoners. An expert on gangs in New Zealand, Dr Jarrod Gilbert, said revenge attacks could "snowball" out of control while the prison officers' union said assaults in New Zealand
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In 2012 the government announced that an extra $ 65 million would be put into rehabilitation, in an effort to reduce re-offending by 25% within five years. Five years later, the
Department's Annual report for 2018 shows its 17 prison based rehabilitation programmes reduced reoffending by an average
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was chief executive of the Department of Corrections for its first ten years, until he retired from the public service in 2005. Byers oversaw a range of organisational initiatives in his time at the helm and, in 2000, introduced a new computer system called "Integrated Offender Management". At the
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manage approximately 100,000 community-based sentences and orders per year, and provide information and reports to judges and the New Zealand Parole Board to assist in reaching sentencing and release decisions. Staff also deliver interventions to offenders and prisoners to address their offending
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Deputy Chief Executive Jeremy Lightfoot and National Commissioner Rachel Leota shared the acting Chief Executive role from November 2018 until February 2019 when Christine Stevenson, formerly Deputy Chief Executive at Corrections and newly appointed Comptroller of Customs and Chief Executive New
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Since it was established, the department has had to cope with a dramatic growth in the prison population. Between 1997 and 2011 the number of inmates increased by 70% and, at 201 prisoners per 100,000 of population (in 2018), New Zealand has one of the higher rates of imprisonment in the Western
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Only limited psychiatric care is available. In its Investigation into Medical and Health Services available to Prisoners, the Ombudsman reported in 2011 that the Corrections Department does not meet Article 22(1) of the United Nations Minimum Standard Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners. This
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The Office of the Chief Executive manages key functions on behalf of the Chief Executive and incorporates Business Continuity and Emergency Planning, Corporate Affairs, Internal Audit, Inspectorate, Ministerial Secretariat, Portfolio Management Office, Professional Standards Unit and the Legal
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In March 2009 analysis of the previous 60 months, showed that 70% of prisoners reoffend within two years of being released from prison and 52% return to prison within five years (some of them more than once). For teenage prisoners, the recidivism rate (return to prison) is 71%. The government
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than the general population. One of the factors contributing to the suicide rate is the high rate of mental health problems experienced by prisoners. The 'Health in Justice' Report conducted in 2010 by the Ministry of Health found 52% of prisoners had a history of psychotic, mood, or anxiety
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Corrections also offers rehabilitation programmes targeting criminal thinking and decision making. One such programme called Straight Thinking was delivered to offenders in the community and in prison. Between 2000 and 2006 over 10,000 offenders were required to attend this programme until an
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Research suggests that nearly 90% of offenders were alcohol or drug affected in the period leading up to their offence. In 2004 an Ombudsman's investigation into the treatment of prisoners found that only 174 inmates a year were able to receive substance abuse treatment. Since then successive
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article requires every prison to provide psychiatric services to a similar level to that which is available in the community. The Ombudsman found prison healthcare to be "reactive rather than proactive" and mental health care available to prisoners to be "inadequate or unsuitable".
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was released in 2009, Collins refused to express confidence in Matthews and media commentators expected him to resign. However, Matthews refused to do so and served out his term; on his retirement he admitted he had dealt with so many crises, the department was like a "landmine".
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Organisational Development provides strategic advice and day-to-day support and services to the Chief Executive and Corrections managers on structural and culture change, human resource management and development, employee health and safety, employee relations and employment
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was described as "the biggest single initiative the department has undertaken to reduce reoffending". Seven years later, Greg Newbold said the scheme was an expensive failure and described it as "another wreck on the scrapheap of abandoned fads of criminal rehabilitation."
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Rehabilitation and Reintegration Services delivers interventions to offenders and prisoners to address their offending behaviour. These involve employment, education, constructive activities, specialised treatment services and offence-focused
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time, this was described as "the biggest single initiative the Department has undertaken to reduce reoffending." IOMS cost $ 40 million but had no impact of the rate of re-conviction which remained at 55% two years after release.
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estimated that if it reached its reduced reoffending target of 25%, there would be 600 fewer people in prison by 2017. In 2014, prison numbers went up (to 8,700) rather than down, due to more offenders being held on remand.
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built four prisons – at Ngawha (Northern Region) housing 420 prisoners, Springhill (north of Huntly) housing 840, Auckland Women's' holding 330 and Milton (Otago) holding 425 – at a cost of $ 890 million. When
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Topia Rameka was the Department of Corrections’ Deputy Chief Executive Māori until he was fired in August 2023, after he was accused of making racist and sexually suggestive remarks towards female employees.
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Corrections used to run Te Ihi Tü in New Plymouth. It closed after an evaluation found the programme was "not effective in reducing recidivism amongst participants". Te Ihi Tu Community Residential Centre,
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was awarded the contract to run the Mt Eden Prison.
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in a prison van; the murder of Karl Kuchenbecker by
1512:"Serco admits 'fight club' reports came months ago"
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827:"It's a prison, so colour it orange (and green)"
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1623:"NZ's first privately-owned jail opened today"
1573:"New private prison at Wiri given green light"
1126:"Prison facts and statistics – September 2019"
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2193:"Prison beatings a daily danger"
1649:Cheng, Derek (5 November 2017).
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2394:Archives New Zealand
771:The Herald on Sunday
349:Prison privatisation
199:Ara Poutama Aotearoa
195:Ara Poutama Aotearoa
150:Department executive
130:Minister responsible
62:Preceding Department
26:Ara Poutama Aotearoa
2517:Ministry of Justice
2490:Ministry of Defence
1788:(23 January 2006).
1492:on 10 February 2018
1320:corrections.govt.nz
1059:on 20 December 2012
806:on 29 November 2014
515:Violence in prisons
393:community probation
288:New Plymouth prison
42:Department overview
20:
2500:Ministry of Health
2463:Ministry for Women
1965:. 23 November 2010
1855:. 19 December 2011
1427:on 5 February 2013
1235:. 6 December 2007.
1186:on 9 February 2013
589:on 20 January 2021
494:Suicide in prisons
156:Jeremy Lightfoot,
91:44–52 The Terrace,
18:
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2127:Health in Justice
1712:. Fairfax NZ News
1602:. 7 February 2018
1549:Radio New Zealand
1406:, June 2008, p 31
1404:Evaluation Report
1305:Straight Thinking
1281:Health in Justice
774:. 12 October 2008
745:PrisonStudies.org
719:Otago Daily Times
504:suicidal ideation
310:Prison statistics
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