Prison Services manages New Zealand's 20 prisons.
The Service is responsible for ensuring all prisoners are accommodated securely, safely and humanely with minimum risk to public and staff safety.
In managing prisoners, Prison Services is responsible for ensuring a prisoner's basic needs are met, including providing appropriate health care, spiritual support, physical exercise and allowing them to maintain pro-social relationships with family and friends.
A major focus for Prison Services is ensuring sentence compliance by actively managing prisoners so that they:
Prison Services employs around 4,000 staff across New Zealand, including around 3,200 Corrections Officers and 160 nurses.
The General Manager Prison Services is Harry Hawthorn.
In the 2008/09 financial year:
Corrections managed 20 prisons capable of accommodating up to 9,131 sentenced and remand prisoners