Prison Services

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.

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:

• are positively motivated to comply with their sentences;
• complete their sentences; and
• experience appropriate consequences when they do not comply.

The General Manager is Harry Hawthorn.