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Community sentences and orders

Community Work
Community Work requires offenders to do unpaid work in the community for non-profit organisations.

Home Detention Sentences
Home Detention is a sentence that requires an offender to remain at an approved residence at all times under electronic monitoring and close supervision by a probation officer.

Home Detention Orders
A Home Detention Order lets an offender serve part of their prison sentence at an approved address, under electronic monitoring and supervision by a probation officer. Orders may be granted by the New Zealand Parole Board to eligible offenders. They are different to the Home Detention Sentence, which can be imposed by judges in court.

Supervision
Supervision is a rehabilitative community-based sentence requiring offenders to address the causes of their criminal behaviour under the supervision of a probation officer.

Community Detention
Community Detention requires the offender to comply with an electronically-monitored curfew imposed by the court. Offenders can be sentenced to Community Detention for up to six months.

Intensive Supervision
Intensive supervision requires offenders to address the causes of their offending with intensive oversight from a probation officer. It is targeted at offenders convicted of serious offences, with severe and/or complex rehabilitative needs and a high risk of re-offending.

Extended Supervision
An Extended Supervision Order imposes parole-like conditions on higher-risk child-sex offenders for up to 10 years after their release from prison.

Programmes for offenders

Programmes for offenders
Information on the numerous programmes Corrections runs to change the behaviour of offenders and reduce re-offending.

Medium Intensity Rehabilitation Programme
The Medium Intensity Rehabilitation Programme is designed to help offenders in the community or prison examine the causes of their offending and develop specific skills to prevent them re-offending.

Short Motivational Programme
The Short Motivational Programme is a one-on-one programme for male or female offenders in prison or the community designed to enhance participants' motivation to understand their offending and assist them to make positive changes in their attitudes and behaviour.

Short Rehabilitation Programme for men
The Short Rehabilitation Programme for men is provided in locations where the Medium Intesity Rehabilitation Programme cannot be provided, or for offenders whose sentences are not long enough for them to attend the longer programme.

Short Rehabilitation Programme for women
The Short Rehabilitation Programme for women is provided in locations where the Medium Intesity Rehabilitation Programme cannot be provided, or for offenders whose sentences are not long enough for them to attend the longer programme.

Kowhiritanga women's programme
The Kowhiritanga programme is aimed at female offenders in prisons and in the community. Participants examine the causes of their offending and develop skills to stop them re-offending.

Basic Work and Living Skills training
Basic Work and Living Skills training is to help suitable offenders to develop skills that may help them to deal with issues that lead them to offend.

Support Planning Meetings
A Support Planning Meeting brings a child sex offender together with the people committed to supporting them to remain offence-free.

Other information

Community Probation & Psychological Services profile
Community Probation & Psychological Services (CPPS) manages offenders serving sentences or orders in the community and provides information to the judiciary and NZ Parole Board.

Community Work Agency Funding
Community Probation & Psychological Services has funding available to approved agencies supervising Community Work offenders.

Supported Accommodation
The supported accommodation service provides housing and other help for high risk and/or high profile offenders with high-level reintegrative needs to help ease their transition back into the community.


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