Background
- Holds up to 350 prisoners
- Part of the Northern Prison Region.
- Opened in March 2005.
- The first of four new-style secure facilities planned for New Zealand.
- Represents a partnership between Corrections and Northland's Ngati Rangi Hapu Development Society working together to change the way secure facilities are designed, built and operated.
- Facility aims to provide a safe, secure and humane environment with prisoners encouraged to accept responsibility and make good choices that ultimately, contribute to reduction in re-offending.
- Corrections recognises the important role played by family/whanau and friends in reducing re-offending by supporting an offender to rehabilitate and ease their return into the community.
Employment
- Employment initiatives available for sentenced prisoners include joinery, carpentry, painting, horticulture, forestry, recycling timber, farming activities, hospitality and catering.
- Supervised groups of prisoners assist with the maintenance of some community sites such as local parks. Many projects benefit the local community.
Special Units
- NRCF does not have a dedicated Youth Unit but it does have a unit used to house young adults aged between 18 and 20. The prison separates them from the rest of the adult population in order to work more closely with young prisoners than would be possible in an adult unit.
Reintegration Initiatives
- Regional Reintegration Teams were established in 2006 to provide prisoners with specialist support to help prepare them for their release into the community. The teams, consisting of Reintegration Caseworkers, Social Workers and Whanau Liaison Workers, work collaboratively with Case Officers and other Corrections' staff to address prisoners' social, living, and reintegrative needs. Reintegration Teams are based in the five Prison Regions - South Island, Wellington, Midland, Waikato/ Central and Northern.
General Information
- Manager: Peter Phelan
- Location: Ohaeawai Rd, State Highway 12, about 5 minutes east of Kaikohe.
- For visiting times please call Northland Region Corrections Facility.
Northland Region Corrections Facility
PO Box 727
Kaikohe 0440
Telephone (09) 401 5800
Fax (09) 401 5801
