In this section
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Information brochures
- Thank you for volunteering with Corrections
- Reducing re-offending - How you can get involved
- Pepper Spray
- Electronic monitoring: Important information for defendants
- Electronic monitoring: Important information for employers
- Electronic monitoring: Important information for family, whānau and occupants
- Electronic monitoring: Important information for offenders
- Electronic monitoring: Important information for prisoners
- About Us brochure
- Community Work brochure
- Corrections and Victims of Crime brochure
- Managing Offender Health brochure
- When Someone Goes to Prison brochure
- Young People Who Offend brochure
- Our Approach to Rehabilitation brochure
- Mothers with Babies Unit
- Your pathway to change - living offence free
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Inquiries & Reviews
- Sexual Harassment Review: June Update
- Sexual Harassment Review: March Update
- Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Waikeria Prison Riot
- Optional Protocol to the Convention Against Torture – Inspection Reports
- Kia Whaitake - Making a Difference: Investigation into Ara Poutama Aotearoa Department of Corrections
- Monitoring Entity Recommendations Themes
- Office of the Inspectorate Reports
- Waikeria Prison incident reports
- Phillip Smith (Phillip Traynor) reports
- Spring Hill riot reports
- Summary of the Operational Review into a Breach of Security at a Christchurch Men’s Prison Unit
- Review of Gang Connections of External Providers
- Official Information Act
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Policy and legislation
- Prison Operations Manual
- Custodial Practice Manual (CPM)
- Cabinet papers and related material
- RIS: Improving safety in prisons and supporting operational practice
- Child Protection Policy
- RIS: Improving the management of prisoners subject to health related segregation and at risk regimes
- RIS: Access to offence-based rehabilitative programmes for remand prisoners
- RIS: Programme conditions for extended supervision orders
- RIS: Improving rehabilitation and safety outcomes in prisons
- RIS: Improving rehabilitation, reintegration and safety outcomes in the Corrections system
- Regulatory Impact Analysis: Removing prison workers from the COVID-19 Public Health Response Vaccinations Order 2021
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Use of pepper spray in custodial settings
- Regulatory Impact Assessment Strengthening Powers to Withhold Mail
- Regulatory Impact Analysis Corrections Amendment Bill 2018
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Corrections Amendment Bill 2018
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Corrections Amendment Regulations 2017 (2)
- Regulatory Impact Statement: Corrections Amendment Regulations 2017
- Community Probation Practice Centre
- Victims Code
- Human rights in NZ prisons
- Electronic Monitoring of Offenders Legislation Bill
- Prisons designated for use of prisoner placement system
- Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act
- Parole Extended Supervision Orders Amendment Bill
- Drug and Alcohol Testing of Community-based Offenders and Bailees Legislation Bill
- Bail Act
- Corrections Act 2004
- Corrections Amendment Act
- Corrections Regulations
- Overview of key legislation
- Parole Act
- Sentencing Act
- Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Bill
- Use of Court Cells for Over-flow Prisoners
- Instrument of Designation
- Administration of Community Sentences and Orders Bill 2011
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Research
- Conducting research in Ara Poutama Aotearoa
- Te Ara Tika The Right Way - The Delivery of Mental Health Services
- Practice: The New Zealand Corrections Journal
- Tai Aroha Evaluation 2015
- Comorbid substance use disorders and mental health disorders among New Zealand prisoners
- Women's Experiences of Re-offending and Rehabilitation
- Topic Series Reports
- Formative Evaluation of the Mothers with Babies Units
- What Works for Maori
- Community Based Domestic Violence 2012
- Tai Aroha 2012
- Breaking the Cycle of Crime
- Youth Therapeutic Programmes
- Prisoner double-bunking: Perceptions and impacts (2012)
- Community Sentence Patterns in New Zealand
- Benchmarking Study of Home Detention Programs in Australia and New Zealand
- About Time: Turning people away from a life of crime and reducing re-offending
- Reconviction Rates of Sex Offenders: Five year follow-up study
- Risk assessment of recidivism of violent sexual female offenders
- What works now
- Reconviction Patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 60-months follow-up analysis
- Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 48-months follow-up analysis
- Reconviction patterns of released prisoners: A 60-months follow-up analysis
- Maori Offenders and Home Detention: Analysis of a One-Year Cohort
- Reconviction patterns of offenders managed in the community: A 48-months follow-up analysis
- Over-representation of Maori in the criminal justice system
- Reconviction Patterns of Released Prisoners: A 36-months Follow-up Analysis
- And there was light...
- Best use of Psychological Service treatment resources
- Census of Prison Inmates and Home Detainees
- Child Sex Offender Treatment
- Criminogenic Needs Inventory (CNI)
- Inmate Family Relocation Study
- National Study of Psychiatric Morbidity in NZ Prisons
- New Zealand high-risk offenders
- Prison Youth Vulnerability Scale
- Risk of Reconviction
- Storm Warning
- Te Whakakotahitanga - An Evaluation of the Te Piriti Special Treatment Programme
- The Driving Offender Treatment Scale
- The Effectiveness of Correctional Treatment
- The Utility of the Psychopathy Checklist - Screening Version for Predicting Serious Violent Recidivism in a New Zealand Offender Sample
- When the Bough Breaks
- A Risk-Need Profile Using Four Measures for Youth Offenders Incarcerated in Young Offender Units
- Māori Focus Units and Māori Therapeutic
- Statistics
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Strategic reports
- Long term network configuration plan
- Select Committees
- Budget 2024 Decisions
- Corrections’ Strategic Plans
- Inclusion, Equity and Diversity Update Part 1
- Annual Reports
- Chief Executive's Expense Disclosure Reports
- Briefing to the Incoming Minister
- Kia Toipoto: Gender pay gap action plan
- Ageing Well Action Plan 2023-2026
- Te Aorerekura Implementation Plan
- Disability Action Plan 2023 – 2027
- Suicide Prevention and Postvention Action Plan 2022-2025
- Strategic Intentions
- Our Health Service Story
- Wāhine: E Rere Ana Ki te Pae Hou Women's Strategy 2021 - 2025
- Alcohol and Other Drug Strategy 2021-2026
- Everyone Safe Every Day - Year Three
- Volunteer Strategy
- Accord between The Kiingitanga and Corrections
- Investing in better mental health for offenders
- Performance Improvement Framework - Follow-up Review of Department of Corrections
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Secondary legislation
- Authorised Property Rules
- Community Work Rules
- Sentencing (Alcohol and Drug Testing of Offenders) Rules 2017
- Parole (Alcohol and Drug Testing of Offenders and Returning Offenders) Rules 2017
- Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) (Alcohol and Drug Testing) Rules 2017
- Chief Executive's guidelines on the use of coercive powers under the Public Safety (Public Protection Orders) Act
Resources
Corrections’ strategic reports, publications, research, statistics and responses to Official Information Act (OIA) requests.
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Information brochures
Brochures and factsheets published by Corrections.
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Inquiries & Reviews
Reports on inquiries and reviews into specific incidents.
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Official Information Act
Selected responses to queries under the Official Information Act.
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Policy and legislation
Key Corrections' policies including the Prison Operations Manual, along with relevant legislation and regulatory impact statements.
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Research
Research on topics related to offenders, prisons, programmes and reducing re-offending.
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Statistics
Corrections statistics including Corrections volumes report and quarterly statistics for prison and community sentences and orders.
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Strategic reports
Corporate documents and strategic reports including Corrections' annual reports, strategic plans.
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Secondary legislation
Secondary legislation made by Department of Corrections under empowering Acts.
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