Over 30 prisoners have recently gained national qualifications through Corrections Inmate Employment (CIE), including:
Corrections staff collected details from 70 people interested in careers at Corrections when they fronted a recruitment stall at Te Matatini, the country’s largest kapa haka festival, in Tauranga in February.
Young prisoners from Christchurch Men’s Prison Youth Unit had the second of their monthly ‘Longest Day’ competitions in late February.
Youth Unit Manager Robbie Risdon says the Longest Day is an officer training course used by the army, which teaches team work and leadership by challenging participants to work together to achieve their goal.
“It is important to give these boys constructive challenges like this,” he says.
“Their challenge was to negotiate an obstacle course devised by Unit staff carrying a number of objects.
“The team leaders had to work with their team and problem solve how they might negotiate the course the fastest."
The competition was the idea of Corrections Officer Nick Rongokea, a former army assistant physical training instructor.
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